Updating object properties in twig

Question

Is there a way to update an object's property in twig?

An object like the following is passed to twig:

object
   property1
   property2

I would like to update property1 like this:

{% set object.property1 = 'somenewvalue' %}

The above code does not work, but is it possible to do something like this in twig? If not, is there a way to write an extension or macro to do this?

Answer 1

Answer from 2013

You can do it by merging objects:

{% set object = object|merge({'property1': 'somenewvalue'}) %}

Update from 2023

I don’t know from which version of twig this solution does not work anymore. Now you can only create an object with a new name:

{% set data = {foo:1} %}
{% set updated = data|merge({ bar: 2 }) %}

foo: {{ updated.foo }} {# Produces “foo: 1” #}
bar: {{ updated.bar }} {# Produces “bar: 2” #}