Convert LDO to plain object

[mrkvon]

I'm trying to use LDO in a Solid React project, and I want to store data in redux. For this I need to convert LDO (which is a Proxy) to plain object. Is it currently possible?

I tried to use ldo.$toJsonLd(), but I get error Not Implemented.

Is $toJsonLD planned, or can this be achieved in some other way?

Btw i love the API and potential of this library. Great work!

[mrkvon]

After a bit of research, i was able to do it as follows:

// stringifying objects with circular reference, according to MDN:
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Errors/Cyclic_object_value#circular_references
const getCircularReplacer = () => {
  const seen = new WeakSet()
  return (key: string, value: unknown) => {
    if (typeof value === 'object' && value !== null) {
      if (seen.has(value)) {
        return
      }
      seen.add(value)
    }
    return value
  }
}

const ldo2json = <T,>(ldo: LinkedDataObject<T>) =>
  JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(ldo, getCircularReplacer()))

// usage
// get LDO foaf profile
const profile = await FoafProfileFactory.parse(
  webId,
  rawProfile,
  { baseIRI: session.webId },
)

// convert it to plain javascript object
console.log(ldo2json(profile))

Still, any better solutions would be appreciated!

[jaxoncreed]

I was going to suggest using JSON.stringify as well. Unfortunately, $toJsonLd() needed to be removed because a third party library (jsonld-streaming-parser) had dependency problems with webpack. I will check to see if it's fixed next time I publish LDO.