Access value in object with . in it's name

Question

So I'm playing around with creating a Facebook chatbot. In order to talk to Facebook I need to validate I have ownership of the URL I give Facebook in the Webhooks panel.

I have an express route that looks like

app.get('/api/verification', (req, res) => {
  // Send back hub.challenge
});

So in the req object I get back from Facebook it looks like:

{ 'hub.mode': 'subscribe',
   'hub.challenge': '178462834',
   'hub.verify_token': 'my_verify_token' }

In order to get to this I console.log out req.query and get this back. But I can't then go req.query.hub.challenge because I'll get undefined since hub.challenge is the value name.

How do I access the value if it's got a . in it's name?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '17 at 08:51

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Use req.query['hub.challenge']

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answered Sep 22 '17 at 08:51

nilobarp

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Thanks dude :) Yeah this was it. Amateur hour here :p – pourmesomecode Sep 22 '17 at 08:53

Access value in object with . in it's name

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