How do I parse a string to number while destructuring?

Question

I am trying to experiment around destructuring assignment. Now I have a case which I trying to cop up with destructuring itself.

For example, I have an input like th

Answer 1

There is a super hacky way of doing this using a getter defined on String.prototype as a helper function.

_{(You probably don't want to do that)}

Object.defineProperty (String.prototype, "asNumber",{
   get: function () { return +this}
});
let input = {latitude: "17.0009", longitude: "82.2108"}
let {latitude:{asNumber:latitude},
     longitude: {asNumber:longitude}} = input

console.log (latitude, longitude)

Let's break that down into simpler steps.

//Extending the `String` prototype means every string 
//will have access to the defined property  via 
//its prototype, so
String.prototype.foo = function () {return `${this}.foo\`} 
//means you can now call foo() like any other string method
"bar".foo() //"bar.foo"`

//A getter allows you to define a function that acts 
//as a property which will be executed upon access. 
let obj = {get getter () {console.log ('Hi');}}
obj.getter // Hi

//Combine those two and you can call functions by 
//accessing properties of strings. 
Object.defineProperty (String.prototype, "asNumber",{
   get: function () { return +this}
});

//Now that you have a property that is available at 
//every string - and make it execute a function; you 
//can convert a string to a number, simply by
//accessing a property
"42".asNumber //42

//To make that work with destructuring assignment, 
//you need to know about another handy feature. You 
//can assign destructured properties to a new 
//variable name.
let {a:b, b:a} = {a:'a', b:'b'};
a; //'b'
b; //'a'

//Since you can nest destructuring assignments, and 
//every string implicitly has a 'asNumber' property, 
//you can destructure that property as well. 

let {lat: {asNumber}} = {lat: "42"};
asNumber //42

//The last thing to know is, there's apparently 
//nothing wrong with using an existing variable as 
//new name for a destructured property. So you can 
//just use the `asNumber` property from the 
//prototype and assign it to the same variable  
//you destructured from the object.
let {lat: {asNumber: lat}} = {lat: "42"};
lat; //42

_{There is nothing wrong with using the same name because only the last variable name will be introduced in the let block's scope}