Unflatten partial arrays

[willgarcia]

Flattened arrays with indexes that don't start at 0 can't easily be unflattened.

Example:

const testData = {
  'complexObject.1.node.id': 'my-test-id',
}

const data = unflatten(testData) as object

console.log(JSON.stringify(data))

The output is:

{ "complexObject": [null, { "node": { "id": "my-test-id" } }] }

Is there a way to retrieve an unflattened version of testData that does not contain a "null" item? The result I'm trying to achieve is:

{ "complexObject": [{ "node": { "id": "my-test-id" } }] }

The reason my indexes don't start at 0 is because the algorithm I'm building is filtering items in arrays, so it is expected to have non sequential indexes / indexes not starting at 0 in the initial flattened structure.