tastypie/node_modules/mout/object/set.js

Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Node.js based on Django's Tastypie Framework. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable, abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces

var namespace = require('./namespace');

    /**
     * set "nested" object property
     */
    function set(obj, prop, val){
        var parts = (/^(.+)\.(.+)$/).exec(prop);
        if (parts){
            namespace(obj, parts[1])[parts[2]] = val;
        } else {
            obj[prop] = val;
        }
    }

    module.exports = set;