Swap key with value JSON

Question

I have an extremely large JSON object structured like this:

{A : 1, B : 2, C : 3, D : 4}

I need a function that can swap the values with

Answer 1

Here is a pure functional implementation of flipping keys and values in ES6:

TypeScript

  const flipKeyValues = (originalObj: {[key: string]: string}): {[key: string]: string} => {
    if(typeof originalObj === "object" && originalObj !== null ) {
      return Object
      .entries(originalObj)
      .reduce((
        acc: {[key: string]: string}, 
        [key, value]: [string, string],
      ) => {
        acc[value] = key
        return acc;
      }, {})
    } else {
      return {};
    }
  }

JavaScript

const flipKeyValues = (originalObj) => {
    if(typeof originalObj === "object" && originalObj !== null ) {
        return Object
        .entries(originalObj)
        .reduce((acc, [key, value]) => {
          acc[value] = key
          return acc;
        }, {})
    } else {
        return {};
    }
}

const obj = {foo: 'bar'}
console.log("ORIGINAL: ", obj)
console.log("FLIPPED: ", flipKeyValues(obj))