Matching all elements of the given Array.

[shahidmau]

Hi, I want to replace all occurrences of the array or object. How to do this?

example::

var dot = require('dot-object');

var str_replacement = 'XXXX';

let inputData = {
    order_status: 1,
    orders: [
        {
            order_id: 'A001',
            date: "10-10-2019"
        },
        {
            order_id: 'A002',
            date: "10-11-2019"
        }
    ],
    shipping: {
        address: "9th main, 6th cross, jp nagar"
    },
    billing: {
        name: "John",
        address: "10th floor, abc road."
    }
}


dot.str('order_status', str_replacement, inputData); // works fine
dot.str('shipping.address', str_replacement, inputData); // works fine
dot.str('orders[*].order_id', str_replacement, inputData); // does not work (I want to replace all order_id of the array with the given replacement value)
dot.str('billing.*', str_replacement, inputData); // does not work (I want to replace all child values of the object with the given replacement value)

console.log(JSON.stringify(inputData, null, 2));

Expected Result 
{ 
    "order_status": "XXXX", 
    "orders": [ 
      { 
        "order_id": "XXXX",
        "date": "10-10-2019"
      }, 
      { 
        "order_id": "XXXX",
        "date": "10-11-2019"
      } 
    ], 
    "shipping": { 
      "address": "XXXX" 
    }, 
    "billing": { 
      "name": "XXXX", 
      "address": "XXXX"
    } 
  } 

[velojason]

I know this is a semi-old question but I recently ran into a similar issue and just wanted to share my workaround, in case anyone else comes across this.
After spending a little time trying to figure out how I could extend the package to do this, instead I ultimately came up with something like this:

// Use the `.dot()` method to flatten the object into its dot-string keys.
const dotted = dot.dot(inputData);

// Filter those keys to find the ones that match some pattern and iterate.
Object.keys(dotted).filter((k) => k.includes('.order_id')).forEach((k) => {
  // Finally, do any processing or replacement.
  const originalValue = dot.pick(k, inputData);
  const newValue = originalValue.split('').map(v => 'X').join('');
  dot.str(k, newValue, inputData);
});

Results in:

{
  ...
  orders: [
    { order_id: 'XXXX', date: '10-10-2019' },
    { order_id: 'XXXX', date: '10-11-2019' }
  ]
}

Hope this helps!