TONL Navigation API Reference

Version: 2.0.6 Status: Stable & Production Ready Last Updated: 2025-11-16

Overview

The Navigation API provides iteration and tree traversal capabilities for TONL documents.

Iterators

entries()

Iterate over [key, value] pairs at the root level.

for (const [key, value] of doc.entries()) {
  console.log(`${key}: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`);
}

keys()

Iterate over keys at the root level.

for (const key of doc.keys()) {
  console.log(key);
}

values()

Iterate over values at the root level.

for (const value of doc.values()) {
  console.log(value);
}

Deep Iterators

deepEntries()

Recursively iterate over all [path, value] pairs.

for (const [path, value] of doc.deepEntries()) {
  console.log(`${path}: ${value}`);
}

// Output:
// user: { name: 'Alice', age: 30 }
// user.name: Alice
// user.age: 30
// users: [...]
// users[0]: { id: 1, name: 'Bob' }
// users[0].id: 1
// users[0].name: Bob

deepKeys()

Recursively iterate over all paths.

const allPaths = Array.from(doc.deepKeys());
// ['user', 'user.name', 'user.age', 'users', 'users[0]', ...]

deepValues()

Recursively iterate over all values.

for (const value of doc.deepValues()) {
  if (typeof value === 'string') {
    console.log(value);
  }
}

Tree Walking

walk()

Walk the tree with a callback function.

doc.walk((path, value, depth) => {
  console.log(`[Depth ${depth}] ${path}: ${value}`);
});

Callback Signature:

type WalkCallback = (
  path: string,
  value: any,
  depth: number
) => void | boolean;

Return false to stop traversal early.

Options:

interface WalkOptions {
  maxDepth?: number;              // Default: 100
  filter?: (value: any) => boolean;
  strategy?: 'depth-first' | 'breadth-first';
  order?: 'pre-order' | 'post-order';
  includeRoot?: boolean;
}

Examples:

// Depth-first (default)
doc.walk((path, value) => {
  console.log(path);
}, { strategy: 'depth-first' });

// Breadth-first
doc.walk((path, value) => {
  console.log(path);
}, { strategy: 'breadth-first' });

// With filter
doc.walk((path, value) => {
  console.log(path, value);
}, {
  filter: (v) => typeof v === 'number'
});

// Early termination
doc.walk((path, value) => {
  if (value === 'STOP') {
    return false; // Stop walking
  }
});

// Post-order traversal
doc.walk((path, value, depth) => {
  console.log(`Visited ${path} after children`);
}, { order: 'post-order' });

Search Utilities

find()

Find the first value matching a predicate.

const user = doc.find((value, path) => {
  return value.email === 'alice@example.com';
});

findAll()

Find all values matching a predicate.

const numbers = doc.findAll((value) => {
  return typeof value === 'number';
});

some()

Check if any value matches a predicate.

const hasAdmins = doc.some((value) => {
  return value.role === 'admin';
});

every()

Check if all values match a predicate.

const allActive = doc.every((value, path) => {
  return path.includes('active') ? value === true : true;
});

countNodes()

Count total nodes in the document.

const nodeCount = doc.countNodes();  // e.g., 156

Advanced Examples

Find all email addresses

const emails = doc.findAll((value) => {
  return typeof value === 'string' && value.includes('@');
});

Collect all IDs recursively

const ids: number[] = [];
doc.walk((path, value) => {
  if (path.endsWith('.id') && typeof value === 'number') {
    ids.push(value);
  }
});

Build a path map

const pathMap = new Map();
for (const [path, value] of doc.deepEntries()) {
  pathMap.set(path, value);
}

Count nodes by type

const typeCounts = { strings: 0, numbers: 0, booleans: 0 };
doc.walk((_, value) => {
  const type = typeof value;
  if (type === 'string') typeCounts.strings++;
  if (type === 'number') typeCounts.numbers++;
  if (type === 'boolean') typeCounts.booleans++;
});

Performance

• Iterators: Lazy evaluation, memory efficient
• Deep iteration: O(n) where n = total nodes
• Walk: O(n) with early termination support
• Search utilities: O(n), stops on first match for find()

See Also

• Query API
• Examples