Object value undefined

Question

Object value undefined

I'm having trouble defining values in a way that I can call them later on.

If i define Search first, then Search.commands[3] is undefined. If i define commandList first then commandList.commands[0] is undefined.

Is there a better way to define these objects such that the order doesn't matter?

var Search = {
    'str': 'search',
    'param': 'search',
    'action': '',
    'commands': [
        Category,
        Location,
        Sort,
        commandList
    ]
}

var commandList = {
'commands': [
    Search,
    Category,
    Stop
]
}

javascript
node.js
object
scope
express

Answer 1

var Search = {
    'str': 'search',
    'param': 'search',
    'action': ''
};
var commandList = {
    'commands': [
        Search,
        Category,
        Stop
    ]
};
Search.commands = [
    Category,
    Location,
    Sort,
    commandList
];

Answer 2

You could use something like this:

var Search = {
    'str': 'search',
    'param': 'search',
    'action': ''
};

var commandList = {
};



Search.commands = [
        Category,
        Location,
        Sort,
        commandList
    ];

commandList.commands = [
    Search,
    Category,
    Stop
];