Alternating Case to Object

A function to convert alternating case ("ALTERNATINGcase") strings to objects ({alternating: 'case'}) and vice versa.

The ACTO string format supports numbers, bools, nulls, and lowercase strings (a-z0-9), as standalone values or as arrays.

This library provides a parse and stringify method to convert objects from and to strings respectively.

Usage

1. Install with npm i @abcnews/alternating-case-to-object
2. Import the library with import {parse, stringify} from '@abcnews/alternating-case-to-object'

Convert an object to a string

stringify({
  prop: 'value',
  second: 'thing',
  allowed: true,
  things: [100, 101],
});

// "PROPvalueSECONDthingALLOWEDyesTHINGS100THINGS101"

Options

propMap:Object

Props in the config will be renamed if they occur in this object. Note the propMap is the same format as you pass to parse(), so the map is applied in the opposite direction.

stringify(
  {
    'kebab-case': 'value',
  },
  {
    propMap: {
      kebabcase: 'kebab-case',
    },
  }
);

// "KEBABCASEvalue"

Parse a string to an object

parse('PROPvalueSECONDthingALLOWEDyesTHINGS100');

// >>>

{
  prop: 'value',
  second: 'thing',
  allowed: true,
  things: 100
}

Automatic type inference

• Number values will be parsed as floats.
• The values "true", "yes", "false" & "no" will be converted to the booleans true, true, false & false, respectively.
• If a prop appears more than once, multiple values will be returned as an array:

parse('GROUPfirstGROUPsecondGROUPthird');

// >>>

{
  group: ['first', 'second', 'third'];
}

Every value in a prop which appears multiple times must be of the same type or an exception will be thrown. For example, this will throw:

parse('AtrueAstr');

Options

arrayProps:Array

Props in this array will always be returned as arrays, even if they occur in the config string zero or one time.

parse('AtrueAfalseBvalueAtrueDvalue', {
  arrayProps: ['a', 'b', 'c']
});

// >>>

{
  a: [true, false, true],
  b: ['value'],
  c: [],
  d: 'value'
}

propMap:Object

Props in the config will be renamed if they occur in this object.

parse('CAMELCASEtrueKEBABCASE100', {
  propMap: {
    camelcase: 'camelCase',
    kebabcase: 'kebab-case'
  }
});

// >>>

{
  camelCase: true,
  'kebab-case': 100
}