How to destructure object properties with key names that are invalid variable names?

larrydahooster picture larrydahooster · Aug 4, 2016 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

As object keys are strings they can contain any kind of characters and special characters. I recently stumbled upon an object which I receive from an API call. This object has '-' in it's key names.

const object = {
   "key-with-dash": []
}

Destructuring does not work in this case because key-with-dash is not a valid variable name.

const { key-with-dash } = object;

So one question came to my mind. How am I supposed to destructure the object in such cases? Is it even possible at all?

Answer

Hitmands picture Hitmands · Aug 4, 2016

const data = {
   "key-with-dash": ["BAZ"]
}

const {"key-with-dash": foo} = data;

console.log("foo", foo);