How to use a variable as a function parameter in Javascript?

I'm a big noob at JS,so if my question is hard to understand then sorry😂.
I'm writing a program in JS(Electron) that provides a user interface for another program I made in C++, so I'm basically rewriting it in JavaScript.

I want to use this JSON variable(or whatever it's called) in my code.

var ShowSecondsInSystemClock = '"name":"ShowSecondsInSystemClock","Description":"Patches the System Tray clock to show seconds","ExplorerRestartRequired":"true","category":"UI-Tweaks","badges":"UITweaks"'


Then I would like to use this function where the parameter of the function "ShowSecondsInSystemClock" is.

function TweakParser(TweakName, NeeddedReturn)
if (NeeddedReturn == "Description")
//I'm trying to use TweakName as the parameter of parse(),but it only
//accepts the name of the Tweak directly
var NeeddedTweakInfo = JSON.parse(TweakName)
return NeeddedTweakInfo.Description




Because there will be many Tweaks, the usecase of this particular function is for example

//I use a non-existing tweak here for the example
TweakParser("RemoveArrowsFromShortcut","Description")


What I want TweakParser to do now is use RemoveArrowsFromShortcut as the parameter of JSON.parse() but it only accept the name of the JSON variable directly and when I input the name of the first parameter of the TweakParser() function it gives me an error, because the parameter(a variable) itself is not a JSON variable (or whatever it's called like).

TweakParser

RemoveArrowsFromShortcut

JSON.parse()

TweakParser()

So my question to you is:

How can I use the string that the first parameter of TweakParser() contains as a parameter for the JSON.parse() function?

TweakParser()

JSON.parse()

JSON.parse

RemoveArrowsFromShortcut

1 Answer
1

You need to create mapping
like a schema 'key': variable
example:

'key': variable


'RemoveArrowsFromShortcut': ShowSecondsInSystemClock



Full example:

var ShowSecondsInSystemClock = '"name":"ShowSecondsInSystemClock","Description":"Patches the System Tray clock to show seconds","ExplorerRestartRequired":"true","category":"UI-Tweaks","badges":"UITweaks"'

var mapping =
RemoveArrowsFromShortcut: ShowSecondsInSystemClock
;

function TweakParser(TweakName, NeeddedReturn)

if (NeeddedReturn == "Description")

var NeeddedTweakInfo = JSON.parse(mapping[TweakName]); // PAY ATTENTION HERE
return NeeddedTweakInfo.Description



var result = TweakParser("RemoveArrowsFromShortcut","Description")

console.log('result', result)

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