Deep comparator between 2 nested JSON objects with a changelog as result
npm install deep-object-comparatorjs
var deepCompare = require('deep-object-comparator')
`
Let's suppose we have two complex JSON objects:
`js
let userData1 = {
"id": 213827,
"data" : {
"username": "testUser1",
"email": "testEmail@gmail.com",
"subscriptionDate": "01-02-2022",
"address" : {
"country": "Italy"
}
},
"someArrayProperties": [2,412,12,3,2]
}
let userData2 = {
"id": 213827,
"data" : {
"username": "testUser1",
"email": "newEmail@gmail.com",
"address" : {
"country": "Italy",
"street": "Example street",
}
},
"someArrayProperties": [2,412,12,3,2,657]
}
//calling
var changelog = deepCompare(userData1, userData2);
console.log(changelog);
//deepCompare will produce a result like this:
[
{
keyPath: 'data -> email',
oldVal: 'testEmail@gmail.com',
newVal: 'newEmail@gmail.com',
note: 'UPDATED'
},
{
keyPath: 'data -> subscriptionDate',
oldVal: '01-02-2022',
note: 'DELETED'
},
{
keyPath: 'data -> address -> street',
newVal: 'Example street',
note: 'ADDED'
},
{ keyPath: 'someArrayProperties.5', newVal: 657, note: 'ADDED' }
]
`
Parameters description:
`js
{Object} elem1: it must be the original object (or older one)
{Object} elem2: it must be the updated object (or newer one)
{String} keyPath: An optional parameter. It specifies a starting keyPath in order to add it in changelog paths as starting point.
If anything is specified, root will be the starting keyPath.
{String[]} keysToIgnore: An optional parameter. An array of keys that will not be included in the compare checks.
{Object} formatTemplate: An optional parameter. Specifies a format for a given object in case you do not want to return an entire
nested object as a change but just some meaningfull keys.
It accepts one or more templates where key is path.targetKey (where path is at least 1 key before the target)
and value is an array of keys that must be selected. It also accepts nested selections.
If value is set as hidden the targetKey will be ignored in the output.
return {Object} This is the changelog object
``