fixed get/set value issues and exported parseXmlPromise function

Author: ppaska

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ngx-dynamic-components",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.5",
   "description": "NGX Dynamic Components is a configuration based dynamic components library for Angular. That allows you to rapidly create dynamic forms or any other mobile-friendly web layouts.",
   "author": "FalconSoft Ltd",
   "repository": {

projects/bootstrap/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ngx-dynamic-components/bootstrap",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.5",
   "private": false,
   "description": "@ngx-dynamic-components/bootstrap is Angular 7+ library what contains a bootstrap interfaces to build a configuration driven web pages and workflows.",
   "author": "FalconSoft Ltd <[email protected]>",

projects/core/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ngx-dynamic-components/core",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.5",
   "private": false,
   "description": "@ngx-dynamic-components/core is Angular 7+ library what contains a core interfaces to build a configuration driven web pages and workflows.",
   "author": "FalconSoft Ltd <[email protected]>",

projects/core/src/lib/services/core.service.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
 import { ComponentDescriptor, UIModel, AttributesMap, XMLResult } from '../models';
-import { BaseUIComponentConstructor, toXMLResult, BaseHTMLElementConstructor } from '../utils';
+import { BaseUIComponentConstructor, toXMLResult, BaseHTMLElementConstructor, parseXmlStringPromise } from '../utils';
 import { ControlProperties, UIModelProperty } from '../properties';
-import * as iXml from 'isomorphic-xml2js';
 
 /**
  * Child Elements directives within Containers
@@ -57,32 +56,8 @@ export class CoreService {
   }
 
   public static async parseXMLModel(uiModelXml: string): Promise<UIModel> {
-
-    function parseStringPromise(xmlString: string): Promise<any> {
-      return new Promise((s, e) => {
-        const ops = {
-          explicitChildren: true,
-          preserveChildrenOrder: true
-        };
-
-        iXml.parseString(xmlString, ops, (err, res) => {
-          if (res) {
-            // need to clone result as it would mutate instance
-            return s(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(res)));
-          }
-          if (err) {
-            // quite dirty way to get meaningful error message
-            let msg = err.message.substring(err.message.indexOf('12px">') + 6);
-            msg = msg.substring(0, msg.indexOf('</div>'));
-            return e(msg);
-          }
-          return null;
-        });
-      });
-    }
-
     try {
-      const res = await parseStringPromise(uiModelXml);
+      const res = await parseXmlStringPromise(uiModelXml);
 
       if (res) {
         const type = Object.keys(res)[0];

projects/core/src/lib/utils/index.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { BaseUIComponent } from '../components/base-ui-component';
 import { BaseHTMLElement } from '../components/base-html-element';
 import { BaseDynamicComponent } from '../components/base-dynamic-component';
 import { UIModel } from '../models';
+import * as iXml from 'isomorphic-xml2js';
 
 export * from './helpers';
 export type BaseUIComponentConstructor = new () => BaseUIComponent;
@@ -57,11 +58,10 @@ export function setValue(objectValue: object, path: string, value: any): void {
   let res: any = objectValue;
 
   for (let i = 0; i < props.length - 1; i++) {
-    res = objectValue[props[i]];
-    if (typeof res !== 'object') {
-      objectValue[props[i]] = {};
-      res = objectValue[props[i]];
+    if (typeof res[props[i]] !== 'object') {
+      res[props[i]] = {};
     }
+    res = res[props[i]];
   }
 
   res[props[props.length - 1]] = value;
@@ -83,11 +83,34 @@ export function queryValue(obj: any, path: string, defaultValue: any = null): an
 
   let res = obj;
   for (const p of props) {
-    res = obj[p];
+    res = res[p];
     if (!res && res !== 0) {
       return res || defaultValue;
     }
   }
 
   return res;
+}
+
+export function parseXmlStringPromise(xmlString: string): Promise<any> {
+  return new Promise((s, e) => {
+    const ops = {
+      explicitChildren: true,
+      preserveChildrenOrder: true
+    };
+
+    iXml.parseString(xmlString, ops, (err, res) => {
+      if (res) {
+        // need to clone result as it would mutate instance
+        return s(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(res)));
+      }
+      if (err) {
+        // quite dirty way to get meaningful error message
+        let msg = err.message.substring(err.message.indexOf('12px">') + 6);
+        msg = msg.substring(0, msg.indexOf('</div>'));
+        return e(msg);
+      }
+      return null;
+    });
+  });
 }

projects/tools/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ngx-dynamic-components/tools",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.5",
   "private": false,
   "description": "@ngx-dynamic-components/tools is Angular 7+ library what contains a core interfaces to build a configuration driven web pages.",
   "author": "FalconSoft Ltd <[email protected]>",

projects/tools/src/lib/components/preview-editor/preview-editor.component.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { Observable, fromEvent } from 'rxjs';
 import { Ace, edit } from 'ace-builds';
 import { jsPython, Interpreter } from 'jspython-interpreter';
-import { JSONUtils } from '@ngx-dynamic-components/core/public_api';
 
 enum Layout {
   horizontal = 'horizontal',