JavaScript Access nested property, in a safe way [duplicate] access nested property javascript,javascript access nested property by string,

const myObject = {
    a: {
      b: {
        c: {
          d: 'test'
        }
      }
    },
    c: {
      d: 'Test 2'
    }
  },

  isObject = obj => obj && typeof obj === 'object',

  hasKey = (obj, key) => key in obj;



function nestedObj(obj, property, callback) {
  return property.split('.').reduce((item, key) => {
    if (isObject(item) && hasKey(item, key)) {
      return item[key];
    }
    return typeof callback != undefined ? callback : undefined;
  }, obj);
}

console.log(nestedObj(myObject, 'a.b.c.d')); //return test


console.log(nestedObj(myObject, 'a.b.c.d.e')); //return undefined


console.log(nestedObj(myObject, 'c.d')); //return Test 2


console.log(nestedObj(myObject, 'd.d', false)); //return false


console.log(nestedObj(myObject, 'a.b')); //return {"c": {"d": "test"}}

An old question, and now days we have Typescript projects so often that this question seems irrelevant, but I got here searching for the same thing, so I made a simple function to do it. Your thoughts about not using try/catch is too strict for my taste, after all the seek for undefined.x will cause an error anyway. So with all that, this is my method.

function getSafe (obj, valuePath) {
    try { return eval("obj." + valuePath); } 
    catch (err) { return null; }
}

To use this we have to pass the object. I tried to avoid that, but there was not other way to get scope into it from another function (there is a whole bunch of questions about this in here). And a small test set to see what we get:

let outsideObject = {
    html: {
        pageOne: {
            pageTitle: 'Lorem Ipsum!'
        }
    }
};
function testme() {  
    let insideObject = { a: { b: 22 } };
    return {
        b: getSafe(insideObject, "a.b"),       // gives: 22
        e: getSafe(insideObject, "a.b.c.d.e"), // gives: null
        pageTitle: getSafe(outsideObject, "html.pageOne.pageTitle"),     // gives: Lorem Ipsum!
        notThere: getSafe(outsideObject, "html.pageOne.pageTitle.style") // gives: undefined
    }
}
testme(); 

UPDATE: Regarding the use of eval I think that eval is a tool to use carefully and not the devil itself. In this method, the user does not interfere with eval since it is the developer that is looking for a property by its name.

If you care about syntax, here's a cleaner version of Hosar's answer:

function safeAccess(path, object) {
  if (object) {
    return path.reduce(
      (accumulator, currentValue) => (accumulator && accumulator[currentValue] ? accumulator[currentValue] : null),
      object,
    );
  } else {
    return null;
  }
}