var atomSetEntryValueByPath = function()

in JSLib/src/odata-atom.js [472:508]

• 28 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    var atomSetEntryValueByPath = function (path, target, value, propertyType) {
        /// <summary>Sets a slashed path value on the specified target.</summary>
        /// <param name="path" type="String">Property path to set ('/'-separated).</param>
        /// <param name="target" type="Object">Object to set value on.</param>
        /// <param name="value">Value to set.</param>
        /// <param name="propertyType" type="String" optional="true">Property type to set in metadata.</param>

        var propertyName;
        if (path.indexOf('/') === -1) {
            target[path] = value;
            propertyName = path;
        } else {
            var parts = path.split('/');
            var i, len;
            for (i = 0, len = (parts.length - 1); i < len; i++) {
                // We construct each step of the way if the property is missing;
                // if it's already initialized to null, we stop further processing.
                var next = target[parts[i]];
                if (next === undefined) {
                    next = {};
                    target[parts[i]] = next;
                } else if (next === null) {
                    return;
                }
                target = next;
            }
            propertyName = parts[i];
            target[propertyName] = value;
        }

        if (propertyType) {
            var metadata = target.__metadata = target.__metadata || {};
            var properties = metadata.properties = metadata.properties || {};
            var property = properties[propertyName] = properties[propertyName] || {};
            property.type = propertyType;
        }
    };