Syntax for extending viewmodel with repeating sequence of members

[wilcoxpdfrd]

I have a view model that consists of an object having a member of the same type, that can repeat an arbitrary number of times before terminating:

var data = { 'myobject' : { 'amember': avalue, 'myobject' : { 'amember: avalue, 'myobject' : { ... ...

Currently I extend this model using ko viewmodel options:

var options = { extend: { "{root}.myobject": function(myobject) { init(myobject); }, "{root}.myobject.myobject": function(myobject) { init(myobject); }, ... "{root}.myobject.myobject.myobject.myobject.myobject": function(myobject) { init(myobject); }, } }

Which works fine as long as my data doesn't have the sequence of members repeat more than 5 times (in this example).

If would be great if there were a syntax to take care of this automatically. Perhaps something like:

   "{root}.myobject...": function(myobject) { 
       init(myobject);
    },

And also be able to handle arrays (which is actually the real scenario with my model):

   "{root}.myobject[i]...": function(myobject) { 
       init(myobject);
    },

By providing such a syntax and implementation would allow for this kind of a model that could handle any arbitrary depth of repeating members, which is clearly desirable.

Thanks for considering this.