Use this when you want to create a single key-value entry within a flow, for example building a property to attach to a geometry.
Category: Objects
Kind: Operation
Description: Construct a key-value pair
Inputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
Key | K | String | Item | The key of the pair |
Value | V | Any | Item | The value of the pair |
Outputs
Name | Abbreviation | Type | Access | Description |
Pair | P | Object | Item | The constructed key-value pair |
About key-value pairs
A key-value pair is a fundamental concept in programming and data storage, especially in dictionaries, maps, JSON, and databases.
Basic Idea
A key-value pair consists of:
Key: A unique identifier.
Value: The data or information associated with that key.
Example in Real Life
Think of a dictionary (the book):
The word is the key.
The definition is the value.
If you look up the key "apple" in the dictionary, the value might be "a fruit that grows on trees".
Example
Take, for example, a real estate listing. It might be stored like this:
property_listing = { "address": "123 Maple Street", "price": 450000, "bedrooms": 3, "bathrooms": 2, "square_feet": 1800, "status": "For Sale" }Breakdown of key-value pairs:
KEY | VALUE |
address | 123 Maple Street |
price | 450000 |
bedrooms | 3 |
bathrooms | 2 |
square_feet | 1800 |
status | For Sale |
Each key describes a property attribute, and each value holds the actual data about it.
This kind of structure is super common in databases and APIs. It makes it easy to store, access, and filter lists.
Object entries refer to the key-value pairs within an object. In JavaScript (and similar structures like JSON), these are called entries because each one is a single unit of information: a key and its corresponding value.
Let’s say you have a JavaScript object:
const property = { address: "123 Maple Street", price: 450000, bedrooms: 3 };The entries of this object are:
["address", "123 Maple Street"]["price", 450000]["bedrooms", 3]
How to
Feed in a string to define the key or name of the property
Feed in any data type as the “value”
The result is a key-value pair object
To create multiple key-value pairs from lists, use map