Creating A Dictionary For JSON Keys?

[nickreese]

Hey Rich! Love this library and use it every time we mount a component to HTML in Elder.js.

One project our team is tackling has a pretty large JSON object we need to hydrate which has a lot of repeated keys.

Currently devalue gives us an output which looks something like this:

// function... yada yada
[
    {
      plant_id: 9456,
      plant_code: '61264',
      plant_name: 'Antelope Expansion 2',
      toxic_chemical_release: a,
      primary_fuel: q,
      address: ab,
      longitude: -118.309153,
      latitude: 34.744977,
      owners: [{ provider_id: C, provider_eiaid: v, provider_name: a, provider_slug: v, fraction_owned: n }],
      plant_production_time_periods: [i, f, l, h, c, g, m, j, k, d, e, b],
      plant_emission_time_periods: [b, k, h, m, j, g, c, i, l, d, f, e],
      plant_production_12_month: 250964,
      plant_emission_12_month: 24580147.654842217,
      plant_emission_per_mwh: 97.94292270940142,
    },
    {
      plant_id: 4817,
      plant_code: '56041',
      plant_name: 'Malburg',
      toxic_chemical_release: a,
      primary_fuel: o,
      address: '4963 Soto Street',
      longitude: -118.2219,
      latitude: 33.9986,
      owners: [{ provider_id: a, provider_eiaid: a, provider_name: a, provider_slug: a, fraction_owned: n }],
      plant_production_time_periods: [b, j, c, i, e, k, f, g, h, d, m, l],
      plant_emission_time_periods: [h, k, m, f, b, j, d, c, l, e, i, g],
      plant_production_12_month: 376645,
      plant_emission_12_month: 264428563.37669998,
      plant_emission_per_mwh: 702.0631187901074,
    },
    {
      plant_id: 4821,
      plant_code: '56051',
      plant_name: 'THUMS',
      toxic_chemical_release: a,
      primary_fuel: o,
      address: '1411 Pier D Street',
      longitude: -118.2141,
      latitude: 33.7684,
      owners: [{ provider_id: a, provider_eiaid: a, provider_name: a, provider_slug: a, fraction_owned: n }],
      plant_production_time_periods: [g, e, c, d, j, m, h, b, k, f, l, i],
      plant_emission_time_periods: [b, h, c, l, k, m, e, j, i, d, g, f],
      plant_production_12_month: 356307,
      plant_emission_12_month: 200655151.6458,
      plant_emission_per_mwh: 563.1524265473314,
    },
  ];

Any reason devalue can't be extended to create a dictionary for keys so they can be compressed as well? Reading the source code I don't see a reason why it couldn't be, but I think you're much much more familiar with the esoterics of the ecosystem and alternatives than I am.

Just looking to compress the object sizes down with no cost to the client. devalue is great at this. :)

[nickreese]

Ended up rolling my own. Don't have a requirement for set and map so getting away from eval made sense.