function getValueFromPath()

in scripts/generateTemplates.js [339:372]

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

function getValueFromPath(paths, obj) {
    const keyPaths = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
        var currentKey = paths[i];
        if (Array.isArray(obj) && !isNumeric(currentKey)) { // If a key is not a number but comes after an array, check if its a unique identifer
            const previousKey = i > 0 ? paths[i - 1] : "";
            var index;

            if (Object.keys(ArrayLocIdentifier).includes(previousKey)) {
                index = obj.findIndex(o => {
                    const id = o[ArrayLocIdentifier[previousKey]];
                    if (id) {
                        const alphaNumericId = removeNonAplhaNumeric(id);
                        const compare = alphaNumericId.localeCompare(currentKey);
                        return compare === 0;
                    } else {
                        return false;
                    }
                });
                if (index !== -1) {
                    currentKey = index.toString();
                }
            }
        }
        if (obj[currentKey]) {
            obj = obj[currentKey];
            keyPaths.push(currentKey);
        } else {
            // value does not exist, template may have been updated
            return { out: null, paths: [] };
        }
    }
    return { out: obj, paths: keyPaths };
}