Nested structures

I was wondering if there would any support for parsing/unparsing nested structures, for instance:

[{
     a: {
          b: 'one',
          c: 'two',
          d: {
               e: 'three'
          }
     },
     f: 'four'
},
...
]

into field columns like a.b, a.c, a.d.e, f or something like that.

Thanks!

[mholt]

If Papa did this, we would have to be very clear about what kind of structures are supported. For example, what about arrays, or would this only be nested objects? If it’s only objects, how do we explain that only an exact 2D array structure is supported? How would we handle unsupported structures (which we wouldn’t know was unsupported until deep inside it)?

Also, there are a lot of ways to map arbitrarily deep/complex structures into 2D space. I doubt users will have the same requirements on this aspect. And if it’s many-1 going one way, it would be impossible to properly map 1-many going the other way.

I think, rather than integrate something like this into the library, it would be more appropriate to make it a wrapper function. What do you think?

[PAEz]

Here’s how I converted the output to an object… http://plnkr.co/edit/8XqkQL?p=preview …its real simple code but worked for me 😉 Its not that hard to make something for your individual needs.