In some cases, I want an object which can have multiple values for a key, for example, a parsed object of query parameters or HTTP headers. Here is an implement of the object, hash-multivalue.js.
npm install hash-multivalue
var hash = HashMultiValue({ foo : ['aaa', 'bbb'], bar : ['111', '222', '333'] });
hash; //=> { foo: 'bbb', bar: '333' }
hash.foo //=> 'bbb'
hash.get('foo') //=> 'bbb'
hash.getAll('foo') //=> ['aaa', 'bbb']
hash-multivalue.js is very inspired from Perl's Hash::MultiValue. So I need specs as following:
- The object is like plain object. In other words, a value for a key must be accessed by property access syntax.
So I use a bit trick to realizing to do it.
- An instance is normal key / value which is last value of the array of a key.
- This is able to access a value by property access syntax.
- An instance has each prototype for it.
- The instance methods are implemented on it. The prototype object must be instance-specific, so this creates constructor function for each instance.
- Use closure to retain original key / values (array) pair.
- Properties are as less as possible.
JavaScript does not distinguish a method or a propety, so the names of methods (eg. 'get', 'getAll') cannot be accessed by property syntax (Use the methods instead). This is restriction of language.