Use this tag for questions and answers regarding how to refer to objects and what certain notation for object mean
Questions tagged [object-notation]
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What is the difference between JSON and Object Literal Notation?
Can someone tell me what is the main difference between a JavaScript object defined by using Object Literal Notation and JSON object?
According to a JavaScript book it says this is an object defined by using Object Notation:
var anObject = {
…
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Eclipse Javascript Editor 2012 with full Outliner support
The reason for using an IDE is the comprehensive facilities it provides.
Therefore, I assume there is a Javascript editor for Eclipse that provides basic outliner-based IDE facilities such as:
Outliner with Object Literal support (which apparently…
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Why does object notation in Scala apparently eliminate the right side associativity of methods ending in ':'?
I am currently getting into Scala and am wondering about the difference it makes to use object notation when calling methods ending with ':'.
As a method name ending in ':' would normally produce right-side associativity, this seems to change when…
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Is there a name for Python literals? The way JavaScript literals are called JSON?
I have a program that can output results either as JSON or Python data structure literals. I am wondering how to succinctly name the latter option.
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Check String for Object/Dot Notation
I have a function that takes a string as an argument, my problem is that the string can be a sentence such as: "My name is John Doe. I need a car." or it can be a dot notation: "this.is.dot.notation". I don't know much about regex (if that's what I…
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How To Set a Property's Property While Creating the Object
I have an object and one of the properties is an array. I want to set a new property on that array (customProp = 0). However, I want to do so inside myObject's declaration.
myObject = {
someString: "text",
someArray: ["one","two"],
/* What…
Gary
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How is this Python design pattern called?
In the ffmpeg-python docs, they used following design pattern for their examples:
(
ffmpeg
.input('dummy.mp4')
.filter('fps', fps=25, round='up')
.output('dummy2.mp4')
.run()
)
How is this design pattern called, where can I find…
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How do I increment and decrement values in an object using JavaScript Classes?
I am trying to do a simple Backpack class to review objects with vanilla javascript. While doing so, I've run into a block because I am unable to create a proper AddItem method or get my decrementItem method to work either.
My code is below:
class…
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How to convert a Java object to a Jackson ObjectNode?
I have a Java object class, say, Student. How to convert it to an ObjectNode? It can be a nested object (multi-level nesting).
I am trying following code to convert the object to ObjectNode, but it is first converting the object to a String and then…
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What does this square bracket suffix at the end of the object definition in JavaScript mean?
JavaScript code
I was browsing someone's code on GitHub and came across this and have no idea what this means. I would have googled but I am new to JavaScript and have no idea how to google it. Any information would be appreciated!
var charStr =…
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How to access javaScript object property NAME not VALUE
I have a an object
me = {
name: "Mo",
age: 28,
}
And I want to see if this object has the property "height" for example. (which it doesn't) How can i do this? So for example if it has the property "height" I can give it a value of…
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Is there a name for a language feature that allows assignment/creation?
This is a bit hard for me to articulate, but in PHP you can say something like:
$myArray['someindex'] = "my string";
and if there is no index named that, it will create/assign the value, and if there IS an index, it will overwrite the existing…
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Split array into pairs and pack into object
I have a an array with CSS text declarations like this: ['display: none ', 'opacity: 0.1', ' color: #ff0000']
I want to split these into object key/value notation so it ends up like this:
{
display: 'none',
opacity: 0.1,
color:…
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updating object property updates all other same properties in that Object
This is confusing me to no end. I am trying to update an objects property dynamically based on vars provided by another function however, when I update the property it updates all the same nested properties of the parent object.
export type…
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JavaScript Object w/Async + forEach Loop - problems with value assignment
My goal here is to create an object, 'tallys,' that has a key for each user in a game, and the value assigned to those user keys is an array representing weekly dollar values won in a game. To begin, I assign each user in the game an array of length…
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