JavaScript Object remove quotes in specific key value

Question

I need to remove double quotes for specific key value:

upload: {
    name: "upload",
    url: "/upload",
    controller: "invoicesCtrl",
    templateUrl: "./views/invoices.html",
    resolve: "resolveUrl('./compiled/invoices_app.js')"
  },
  invoices: {
    name: "invoices",
    url: "/invoices",
    controller: "invoicesCtrl",
    templateUrl: "/invoices/views/invoices.html",
    resolve: "resolveUrl('/invoices/app/js/compiled/invoices_app.js')"
  }

Just for resolve key values, the others have to be strings. Is there any regular expression for this with the replace function? The expected result:

upload: {
    name: "upload",
    url: "/upload",
    controller: "invoicesCtrl",
    templateUrl: "./views/invoices.html",
    resolve: resolveUrl('./compiled/invoices_app.js')
  },
  invoices: {
    name: "invoices",
    url: "/invoices",
    controller: "invoicesCtrl",
    templateUrl: "/invoices/views/invoices.html",
    resolve: resolveUrl('/invoices/app/js/compiled/invoices_app.js')
  }

Assuming you are using JavaScript, possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19156148/i-want-to-remove-double-quotes-from-a-string. — Sean Perkins, Dec 15 '15 at 21:13
If I understand your question correctly, you want to assign `resolve` the result of running `eval` on the current value of `resolve`? — ndnenkov, Dec 15 '15 at 21:17
Side note, that's just a JavaScript object, not JSON. I've edited your title to reflect this and removed the `json` tag... — War10ck, Dec 15 '15 at 21:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '15 at 21:16

When you're saying remove double quotes and the only double quoes in resolve are the string literal terminators, are you saying you want a JavaScript function called resolveUrl to be called at some point, and that resolve should be the result of that call?

In that case, you could do something like:

// iterate through all properties of myObject, assuming it is a flat
// object containing upload and invoices from your code
Object.keys(myObject).forEach(function(key) {

   if(myObject[key].hasOwnProperty('resolve'))
      myObject[key].resolve = eval(myObject[key].resolve);

});

If you know that it will always be a resolveUrl call, it'd be more safe to just let the original property contain the string value - eg. resolve: '/invoices/app/js/compiled/invoices_app.js' - and then call resolveUrl manually:

if(myObject[key].hasOwnProperty('resolve'))
   myObject[key].resolve = resolveUrl(myObject[key].resolve);

JavaScript Object remove quotes in specific key value

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