Javascript References?

[MrFish]

I have a feeling the answer to this is no (for security reasons) but I'd like to use references in a script I'm writing. I have a JSON object of key-value settings and a set of objects that will take these settings. I would like to be able to update the object and the setting object at the same time without needing to recursively rebuild the setting object every time a value is updated. Here is my example code-

settings:{"fields":{  "sort":  {   "value":1,   "fields":   {	"sort_options":	{	 "value":	 [	  {	   "name":	   {		"value":"test"	   },	   "sort":	   {		"value":"inv_id"	   },	   "sort_direction":	   {		"value":"DESC"	   }	  }	 ]	}   }  },  "pagination":  {   "value":0   "fields":   {	"limit":10   }  }}}

For each of the fields you see (like "sort" and "pagination") in these setting will become an object. Each setting is also sent to a view object that prints an input type to it's parent dom object (like a checkbox or text field). When the field is set and not null then it's sub-fields become visible. So you can see the recursion here. These settings need to be saved to a text file and read in the same format. You can see how it could be convenient to reference that value or any of these fields to the same variable the model is using. Any ideas?

[justsomeguy]

You can't bind the two objects like that, the best solution is probably a method to update a setting that will update it in both places.