added deprciated code for reference

Author: frankpagan

src/encodedecode.js

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+// function 	__mergeObject(target, source) 
+// {
+// 	target = target || {};
+// 	for (let key of Object.keys(source)) {
+// 		if (source[key] instanceof Object) {
+// 			Object.assign(source[key], __mergeObject(target[key], source[key]))
+// 		}
+// 	}
+	
+// 	Object.assign(target || {}, source)
+// 	return target
+// }
+
+// function __createObject(data, path) 
+// {
+// 	if (!path) return data;
+	
+// 	let keys = path.split('.')
+// 	let newObject = data;
+
+// 	for (var  i = keys.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+// 		newObject = {[keys[i]]: newObject}				
+// 	}
+// 	return newObject;
+// }
+
+// function __createArray(key, data)
+// {
+//   try {
+//     let item = /([\w\W]+)\[(\d+)\]/gm.exec(key)
+//     if (item && item.length == 3) {
+//       let arrayKey = item[1];
+//       let index = parseInt(item[2]);
+      
+//       if (!data[arrayKey] || !Array.isArray(data[arrayKey])) {
+//         data[arrayKey] = [];
+//       } 
+//       data[arrayKey][index] = data[key];
+//       delete data[key];
+//       key = arrayKey;
+//     }
+//   } catch {
+//     console.log('create array error');
+//   }
+//   return key;
+// }
+
+
+
+// function isObject(item) {
+//   return (!!item) && (item.constructor === Object);
+// }
+// function isArray(item) {
+//   return (!!item) && (item.constructor === Array);
+// }
+
+
+// function decodeObject(data) {
+//   let keys = Object.keys(data)
+//   let objectData = {};
+  
+//   keys.forEach((k) => {
+//     k = __createArray(k, data);
+//     if (k.split('.').length > 1) {
+//       let newData = __createObject(data[k], k);
+//       delete data[k];
+      
+//       objectData = __mergeObject(objectData, newData);
+//     } else {
+//       objectData[k] = data[k];
+//     }
+//   })
+//   return objectData;
+// }
+
+// function encodeObject(data) {
+//   let keys = Object.keys(data);
+//   let newData = {};
+//   keys.forEach((k) => {
+//     let data_value = data[k];
+//     if (isObject(data[k])) {
+//       let new_obj = encodeObject(data[k]);
+//       let newKeys = Object.keys(new_obj);
+//       newKeys.forEach((newKey) => {
+//         let value = new_obj[newKey];
+//         if (isNaN(parseInt(newKey))) {
+//           newKey = `${k}.${newKey}`;
+//         } else {
+//           newKey = `${k}[${newKey}]`;
+//         }
+        
+//         newData[newKey] = value;
+//       })
+
+//     } else if (isArray(data_value)){
+//       data_value.forEach((v, index) => {
+//         newData[`${k}[${index}]`] = v;
+//       })
+//     } else {
+//       newData[k] = data[k];
+//     }
+//   })
+//   return newData;
+// }
+
+module.exports = {
+    // decodeObject,
+    // encodeObject,
+    replaceArray
+  };
+  

src/index.old.js

@@ -425,7 +425,24 @@ async function complexSelector(comSelector, callback) {
     }
   }
 
-  
+  function decodeArray(data) {
+		let keys = Object.keys(data);
+		let objectData = {};
+
+		keys.forEach((k) => {
+			let nk = k
+			if (/\[([0-9]*)\]/g.test(k)) {
+				nk = nk.replace(/\[/g, '.');
+				if (nk.endsWith(']'))
+					nk = nk.slice(0, -1)
+				nk = nk.replace(/\]./g, '.');
+				nk = nk.replace(/\]/g, '.');
+			}
+			objectData[nk] = data[k];
+		});
+		return objectData;
+	}
+
 
 export default {
   getElementPath,