json_

json_

Converts camelCase JavaScript objects to JSON snake_case and vise versa. This is a direct replacement for the built-in JSON object. In fact, this simply wraps the built-in JSON object. Very handy when your back_end APIs are not build using Node.js. It also supports converting a fetch response stream into a camelCased object.

NOTE: New version 3.0 completely re-written in TypeScript, so it's fully typed.

First, get the package

Install json_ and include it in your build.

npm install json_ --save

Then import it like this.

import JSON_ from 'json_';

Example

const example = {
  firstName: 'John',
  lastName: 'Doe',
  isbn10: '1234567890',
};

console.log(JSON_.stringify(example));
// {"first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe", "isbn_10": "1234567890"}

And vise versa.

import JSON_ from 'json_';
const str = '{"ultimate_answer": 42}';

console.log(JSON_.parse(str));
// {ultimateAnswer: 42}

Using with fetch

You can use json_ directly with the JavaScript fetch API to convert the Response into an Object with snakeCase.

Let's say you have a function that returns snake_case weather data, something like this.

const fetchWeather = async zip => {
  const response = fetch(`${weatherUrl}?zip=${zip}`);
  const json = await response.json();
  return json;
};

const data = await fetchWeather('10285');
console.log(data);
// {current_temp: 85, reporting_station: 'New York, NY'}

You can easily convert the resolved object to camelCase by replacing the call to Response.json() to a call to JSON_.parse(Response), like this.

- const json = await response.json();
+ const json = await JSON_.parse(response);

The resulting code looks like this

import JSON_ from 'json_';

const fetchWeather = async zip => {
  const response = fetch(`${weatherUrl}?zip=${zip}`);
  const json = await JSON_.parse(response);
  return json;
};

const data = await fetchWeather('10285');
console.log(data);
// {currentTemp: 85, reportingStation: 'New York, NY'}

Tests!

100% unit test coverage. To run the unit tests and get a coverage report:

npm test coverage

License

Copyright Donavon West. Released under MIT license