Trying to use destructuring inside the Movie.create() method

Question

I added a helper function to accept the different pieces of data  for each movie in order to make the code look more clean. I'm trying to utilize the destructuring shorthand like this:
javascript
const createMovie = (title, runtime, releaseDate, availableOnVHS) => {
  return Movie.create({
    { title },
    { runtime },
    { releaseDate },
    { availableOnVHS },
  })
}

This renders the following error:
```
/Users/.../sql-orms-with-node/app.js:8
    { title },
    ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'

When I run the code as follows, it works: 
javascript
const createMovie = (title, runtime, releaseDate, availableOnVHS) => {
  return Movie.create({
    title: title,
    runtime: runtime,
    releaseDate: releaseDate,
    availableOnVHS: availableOnVHS,
  })
}
```
Is there a way I can use the destructuring assignment for the  createMovie function?
Thanks!

Steven Parker · Accepted Answer

This isn't a case for restructuring, but you can use the shorthand for creating an object literal:
js
const createMovie = (title, runtime, releaseDate, availableOnVHS) =>
    Movie.create({title, runtime, releaseDate, availableOnVHS});

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Trying to use destructuring inside the Movie.create() method

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