Object Diff Iterator

Motivation

There exists another object diffing library called deep-object-diff, but the output is difficult to process in some use cases due to it being consisting of nested objects. This library aims to simplify the comarison by wrapping the logic around a generator function, in turn exposing a simpler iterator API.

Example

import {objdiff} from "objdiff-iterator";
const obj1 = {
    id:234,
    bar:{
        baz:2,
        bar:3
    },
    arr:[1,2]
};
const obj2 = {
    id:53,
    bar:{
        baz:5,
        boo:10
    },
    arr:[1,3,5]
};
for(let result of objdiff(obj1,obj2)){
    console.log(result);
}

Output

{ path: '.id', o1: 234, o2: 53 }
{ path: '.bar.baz', o1: 2, o2: 5 }
{ path: '.bar.bar', o1: 3, o2: undefined }
{ path: '.bar.boo', o1: undefined, o2: 10 }
{ path: '.arr[1]', o1: 2, o2: 3 }
{ path: '.arr[2]', o1: undefined, o2: 5 }

API

objdiff: (obj1:any,obj2:any)=>Generator<Diff,void,void>

Accepts any objects that needs to be compared. Returns an generator that yields Diff objects for every difference found.

interface Diff

yield value of objdiff.

interface Diff {
    path: string,
    o1: any,
    o2: any
};

Diff.path: string

A JS path to the target location in the object.
It can either contain member access operators, or square brackets containing string keys.
examples: '.bar[1].baz' '.bar["123baz"]'

Diff.o1: any

Content of the path in the first obejct

Diff.o2: any

Content of the path in the second obejct