Added dotobject in Election

src/types/election/election.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { IQuestion } from '../metadata';
 import { Census } from '../census';
 import { MultiLanguage } from '../../util/lang';
 import { UnpublishedElection } from './unpublished';
+import { dotobject } from '../../util/common';
 
 export interface IVoteType {
   /**
@@ -250,4 +251,8 @@ export abstract class Election {
   get addSDKVersion(): boolean {
     return this._addSDKVersion;
   }
+
+  get(dot: string) {
+    return dotobject(this.meta, dot);
+  }
 }

src/util/common.ts

@@ -49,3 +49,22 @@ export function areEqualHexStrings(hex1?: string, hex2?: string) {
 export function formatUnits(value: BigNumberish, decimals: number = 18): string {
   return ethersFormatUnits(value, decimals);
 }
+
+/**
+ * Dot notation to object conversion. Takes any object as first argument and uses the string dot notation from the
+ * second argument (i.e. 'a.child.node') to access that given object value.
+ *
+ * @param {any} obj Object to be accessed by dot notation
+ * @param {string} dot Dot notation string to extract object data
+ * @returns
+ */
+export const dotobject = (obj: any, dot: string) => {
+  const rec = (obj: any, dot: string[]): any => {
+    if (dot.length && typeof obj[dot[0]] !== 'undefined') {
+      return rec(obj[dot[0]], dot.slice(1));
+    }
+    return obj;
+  };
+
+  return rec(obj, dot.split('.'));
+};

test/integration/election.test.ts

@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ describe('Election integration tests', () => {
         test1: 'test1',
         test2: 'test2',
       },
+      census: {
+        fields: ['firstname', 'lastname', 'email'],
+        type: 'spreadsheet',
+      },
     };
 
     await client.createAccount();
@@ -83,10 +87,15 @@ describe('Election integration tests', () => {
             test1: 'test1',
             test2: 'test2',
           },
+          census: {
+            fields: ['firstname', 'lastname', 'email'],
+            type: 'spreadsheet',
+          },
           sdk: {
             version: SDK_VERSION,
           },
         });
+        expect(publishedElection.get('census.type')).toEqual('spreadsheet');
         expect(publishedElection.electionType).toStrictEqual({
           autoStart: true,
           interruptible: true,

test/unit/types/election.test.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ beforeEach(() => {
         test1: 'test1',
         test2: 'test2',
       },
+      census: {
+        fields: ['firstname', 'lastname', 'email'],
+        type: 'spreadsheet',
+      },
     },
     startDate: new Date().getTime() + 80000,
     endDate: new Date().getTime() + 10000000,
@@ -50,7 +54,12 @@ describe('Election tests', () => {
         test1: 'test1',
         test2: 'test2',
       },
+      census: {
+        fields: ['firstname', 'lastname', 'email'],
+        type: 'spreadsheet',
+      },
     });
+    expect(election.get('census.type')).toEqual('spreadsheet');
     expect(election.electionType).toEqual({
       autoStart: true,
       interruptible: true,