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Iterate over object keys in node.js

Asked 2011-09-16T04:00:06.827
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Since Javascript 1.7 there is an Iterator object, which allows this:

var a={a:1,b:2,c:3};
var it=Iterator(a);

function iterate(){
    try {  
        console.log(it.next());
        setTimeout(iterate,1000);
    }catch (err if err instanceof StopIteration) {  
        console.log("End of record.\n");  
    } catch (err) {  
        console.log("Unknown error: " + err.description + "\n");  
    }  

}
iterate();

is there something like this in node.js ?

Right now i'm using:

function Iterator(o){
    /*var k=[];
    for(var i in o){
        k.push(i);
    }*/
    var k=Object.keys(o);
    return {
        next:function(){
            return k.shift();
        }
    };
}

but that produces a lot of overhead by storing all the object keys in k.

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adjust his code:

Object.prototype.each = function(iterateFunc) {
        var counter = 0,
keys = Object.keys(this),
currentKey,
len = keys.length;
        var that = this;
        var next = function() {

            if (counter < len) {
                currentKey = keys[counter++];
                iterateFunc(currentKey, that[currentKey]);

                next();
            } else {
                that = counter = keys = currentKey = len = next = undefined;
            }
        };
        next();
    };

    ({ property1: 'sdsfs', property2: 'chat' }).each(function(key, val) {
        // do things
        console.log(key);
    });
answered 2013-07-26T08:43:10.620

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