Trim white spaces in both Object key and value recursively

Question

How do you trim white spaces in both the keys and values in a JavaScript Object recursively?

I came across one issue in which I was trying to \"clean\" a user suppli

Answer 1

The best solution I used is this. Check the documentation on replacer function.

var obj = {"data": {"address": {"city": "\n \r     New York", "country": "      USA     \n\n\r"}}};

var trimmed = JSON.stringify(obj, (key, value) => {
  if (typeof value === 'string') {
    return value.trim();
  }
  return value;
});

console.log(JSON.parse(trimmed));