too much recursion

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Published on 2010-05-29T16:10:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 16:12 UTC
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Hey guys, I got an error in javascript and it won't get away. :-) In the little recursive thingy following, I want to replace a value inside a (nested) object.

var testobj = {
    'user': {
        'name': 'Mario',
        'password': 'itseme'
    }
};

updateObject('emesti', 'password', testobj)

function updateObject(_value, _property, _object) {
    for(var property in _object) {
        if(property == _property) {
            _object[property] = _value;
        }
        else if(objectSize(_object) > 0) {
            updateObject(_value, _property, _object[property]);
        }
    }

    return _object
};

function objectSize(_object) {
    var size = 0, key;
    for (key in _object) {
        if (_object.hasOwnProperty(key)) size++;
    }
    return size;
};

After running this, firefox throws the exception "too much recursion" on the line else if(objectSize(_object) > 0) { .

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