From 4f847be5c4e1721b4f752faa3716b90543ece304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Candid Dauth <cdauth@cdauth.eu>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:39:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Flatten object for filter (fixes #79)

Related to issue https://github.com/joewalnes/filtrex/issues/12, filtrex
does not support nested properties.
---
 frontend/common/filter.js | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frontend/common/filter.js b/frontend/common/filter.js
index 62251c16..2cba5187 100644
--- a/frontend/common/filter.js
+++ b/frontend/common/filter.js
@@ -114,11 +114,32 @@ const filter = module.exports = {
 	},
 
 	prepareObject: function(obj, type) {
-		obj = $.extend(true, { }, obj);
+		obj = filter.flattenObject(obj);
 
 		if(type)
 			obj.type = type.type;
 
 		return obj;
+	},
+
+	flattenObject(data) {
+		// https://stackoverflow.com/a/19101235/242365
+
+		var result = {};
+		function recurse (cur, prop) {
+		    if(prop)
+		        result[prop] = cur;
+
+		    if(Array.isArray(cur)) {
+		         for(var i=0, l=cur.length; i<l; i++)
+		             recurse(cur[i], prop + "." + i);
+		    } else if(Object(cur) === cur) {
+		        for (var p in cur) {
+		            recurse(cur[p], prop ? prop+"."+p : p);
+		        }
+		    }
+		}
+		recurse(data, "");
+		return result;
 	}
 };
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