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JavaScript

Posted by Christian Unigarro
Christian Unigarro
7,177 Points

How to navigate through an object in two levels, using a function parameter?

I have a function that have a parameter that have to get an property of an object in a second level.

var objectTest = {
  propertyOne: {
    propertyTwo: 'data to Get'    
  }
}

function getProperty (dataToGet) {
  return objectTest.dataToGet
}

console.log(getProperty(¿?));

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,658 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,658 Points

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, but if you want to pass the getProperty function the name of the 2nd level property, and have it return the value of that property, it might look something like this:

var objectTest = { propertyOne: { propertyTwo: 'data to Get' } }

function getProperty (dataToGet) { return objectTest.propertyOne[dataToGet] }

console.log(getProperty("propertyTwo"));