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I have an 3 nested array of Objects and I need to merge them all in single array of objects by comparing key. and if any object have same key then their inner object will merge. And if key is not same then also the nested array of objects will merge*
var obj1 = {
a: {
c: 3
}
}
var obj2 = {
b: {
e: 40
}
}
var obj3 = {
d: {
x: 30
},
a: {
f: 66
}
}
// The expected output will be like this -
//
/*OUTPUT:::
{
a: {
c: 3,
f: 66
},
b: {
e: 40
},
d: {
x: 30
}
}
Please tell me which approach would be suitable ?

You can group the objects using Array.prototype.reduce.
const
obj1 = { a: { c: 3 } },
obj2 = { b: { e: 40 } },
obj3 = { d: { x: 30 }, a: { f: 66 } };
const res = [obj1, obj2, obj3].reduce((r, o) => {
Object.entries(o).forEach(([k, v]) => {
r[k] = { ...r[k], ...v };
});
return r;
}, {});
console.log(res);

How to loop and push on the accumulator of a reduce function?

I'm trying to reduce an array, and transform it in multiple array.
const array = [
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 4 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 }
];
var newArray = array.reduce(
(memo, curr) => {
memo.forEach((item, key) => {
const found = item.filter((el) => el.a === curr.a && el.b === curr.b);
if (found.length > 0) return memo[key].push(curr);
else return memo.push([curr]);
});
return memo;
},
[[]]
);
The needed result I try to get is
[
[
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 }
],
[
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
],
[
{ a: 1, b: 4 },
]
];
But as you can see if you try, because I push on the memo, the loop continue to fire. And the result contain hundreds arrays.
How I'm supposed to do to limit this loop and get the right result ?
Thanks a lot in advance :)

You could use Map to group the element by the key of {a, b}, and then get the values of the group
const array = [
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 4 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
];
var newArray = Array.from(
array
.reduce((map, curr) => {
const key = JSON.stringify({ a: curr.a, b: curr.b });
if (!map.has(key)) {
map.set(key, []);
}
map.get(key).push(curr);
return map;
}, new Map())
.values()
);
console.log(newArray);

Look at your code. You have a triple nested loop, which is insane and definitely not needed to achieve this. Why not use a map?
Here is a function that will do what you want to do with any array of objects given.
const array = [
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 4 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
];
const separate = (arr) => {
const reduced = arr.reduce((acc, curr) => {
const path = JSON.stringify(curr);
if (!acc[path]) acc[path] = [];
acc[path].push(curr);
return acc;
}, {});
return Object.values(reduced);
};
console.log(separate(array));

If you push inside for loop it will going to push for every reduce function iteration also.
you can achieve by adding some local variables like here
const array = [
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 },
{ a: 1, b: 6 },
{ a: 1, b: 4 },
{ a: 1, b: 5 }
];
// shift changes the orginal array
// it will remove and return firstElement
var firstElement = array.shift(1);
var newArray = array.reduce(
(memo, curr) => {
let isFound = false;
let index = 0;
memo.forEach((item, key) => {
const found = item.filter((el) => el.a === curr.a && el.b === curr.b);
if(found.length > 0){
index = key;
isFound = true;
return;
}
});
if(isFound) {
memo[index].push(curr);
} else {
memo.push([curr]);
}
return memo;
},
[[firstElement]]
);
console.log(newArray);

JavaScript, split object in 2, and push in array

I have an array of objects like this:
const arrayOfObjects = [
{ A: 1, B: 2, C: 3 },
{ A: 3, B: 4, C: 1 }
]
And another array which is called "headers"
const headers = [
['A', 'B'],
['C']
]
I have to create an array similar to the first one but, with those objects splited by what headers have in it's arrays.
This should be the goal:
const result = [
[
{ A: 1, B: 2 },
{ C: 3 }
],
[
{ A: 3, B: 4 },
{ C: 1 }
]
]
I tried by doing a "base" array with:
const baseArray = []
headers.forEach((header) => {
const objFromHeader = {};
header.forEach((head) => {
objFromHeader[head] = 0;
});
baseArray.push(objFromHeader);
});
That will give me the result array but with 0 values for each key.
And then loop for the first array and put inside another array the base array with the correct values.
Then I wanted to fill each key according to the value that comes from arrayOfObjects but here is where I can't see how could I loop that array of objects and put the correct value. The only problem with that approach is that the result array will have some 0 values that come from the initiation array that I'm using, it would be better to me to only put the objects that actually have values and not 0 (I was thinking on another function to delete those keys with value = 0...)
How could I achieve it in a better way?
Fiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/pmiranda/Lpscz6vt/

When iterating over an object, use findIndex on the headers to identify which index in the headers array the property being iterated over should go into. Create an object there if it doesn't exist yet, and set the property.
const arrayOfObjects = [
{ A: 1, B: 2, C:3 },
{ A: 3, B: 4, C:1 }
];
const headers = [
['A', 'B'],
['C']
];
const toResultItem = (object) => {
const resultItem = [];
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(object)) {
const headersIndex = headers.findIndex(arr => arr.includes(key));
resultItem[headersIndex] ??= {};
resultItem[headersIndex][key] = value;
}
return resultItem;
};
console.log(arrayOfObjects.map(toResultItem));

const arrayOfObjects = [
{ A: 1, B: 2, C: 3 },
{ A: 3, B: 4, C: 1 },
];
const headers = [['A', 'B'], ['C', 'D']];
const result = arrayOfObjects.map((obj) =>
headers.map((header) =>
header.reduce((acc, key) => {
acc[key] = obj[key];
return Object.keys(acc).reduce((newAcc, key) => {
if (acc[key]) {
newAcc[key] = acc[key];
}
return newAcc;
}
, {});
}, {})
)
);
console.log(result);

Array.forEach implementation
Logic
Loop through arrayOfObjects array.
Inside that, loop through headers array.
Inside that, loop through each array in the headers array.
Create an empty object and assign the property from nodes in headers array with values from objects in arrayOfObjects array.
const arrayOfObjects = [
{ A: 1, B: 2, C: 3 },
{ A: 3, B: 4, C: 1 }
];
const headers = [
['A', 'B'],
['C']
];
const baseArray = []
arrayOfObjects.forEach((obj) => {
const childNode = [];
headers.forEach((head) => {
const node = {};
head.forEach((key) => node[key] = obj[key]);
childNode.push(node);
});
baseArray.push(childNode);
});
console.log(baseArray)
Array.map and Array.reduce implementation.
Using the same logic implementes in the above solution, we can rewrite this using Array.map and Array.reduce as below.
const arrayOfObjects = [
{ A: 1, B: 2, C: 3 },
{ A: 3, B: 4, C: 1 }
];
const headers = [
['A', 'B'],
['C']
];
const output = arrayOfObjects.map((obj) => {
return headers.map((header) => {
return header.reduce((acc, curr) => {
acc[curr] = obj[curr];
return acc;
}, {});
})
})
console.log(output);

How to create single object from array of object without overriding the value?

How to achieve below output?
const arr = [{ a: 1 }, { a: 2 }, { a: 3 }];
Required Output: { a: 1 , a: 2 , a: 3 }
The Object.assign overrides the key value and reduces to below output.
Object.assign({}, ...arr); // Output: {a:3}

This is what I should have written on original post -
Array of Object: [{ a: { a: 1 }, b: { a: 2 }, c: { a: 3 } }]
Single Object: { a: { a: 1 }, b: { a: 2 }, c: { a: 3 } }
I was able to achieve it by using below code.
const obj = arr.reduce((accum, value) => {
return { ...accum, ...value }
}, {});

Flatten array with objects into 1 object

Given input:
[{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }]
How to return:
{ a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
For arrays it's not a problem with lodash but here we have array of objects.

Use Object.assign:
let merged = Object.assign(...arr); // ES6 (2015) syntax
var merged = Object.assign.apply(Object, arr); // ES5 syntax
Note that Object.assign is not yet implemented in many environment and you might need to polyfill it (either with core-js, another polyfill or using the polyfill on MDN).
You mentioned lodash, so it's worth pointing out it comes with a _.assign function for this purpose that does the same thing:
var merged = _.assign.apply(_, [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }]);
But I really recommend the new standard library way.

With lodash, you can use merge():
var arr = [ { a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 } ];
_.merge.apply(null, [{}].concat(arr));
// → { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
If you're doing this in several places, you can make merge() a little more elegant by using partial() and spread():
var merge = _.spread(_.partial(_.merge, {}));
merge(arr);
// → { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }

Here is a version not using ES6 methods...
var arr = [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }];
var obj = {};
for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
var o = arr[i];
for(var key in o) {
if(typeof o[key] != 'function'){
obj[key] = o[key];
}
}
}
console.log(obj);
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/yaw3wbb8/

You can use underscore.extend function like that:
var _ = require('underscore');
var a = [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }];
var result = _.extend.apply(null, a);
console.log(result); // { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
console.log(a); // [ { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 } ]
And to prevent modifying original array you should use
var _ = require('underscore');
var a = [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }];
var result = _.extend.apply(null, [{}].concat(a));
console.log(result); // { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
console.log(a); // [ { a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 } ]
Here can test it

Adding to the accepted answer, a running code snippet with ES6.
let input = [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }]
//Get input object list with spread operator
console.log(...input)
//Get all elements in one object
console.log(Object.assign(...input))

I've got a neat little solution not requiring a polyfill.
var arr = [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }];
var object = {};
arr.map(function(obj){
var prop = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj);
object[prop] = obj[prop];
});
Hope that helps :)

Here is a nice usage of Object.assign with the array.prototype.reduce function:
let merged = arrOfObjs.reduce((accum, val) => {
Object.assign(accum, val);
return accum;
}, {})
This approach does not mutate the input array of objects, which could help you avoid difficult to troubleshoot problems.

With more modern spread operator
arrOfObj.reduce( (acc, curr) => ({ ...acc, ...cur }) );

You can easily flat your object to array.
function flatten(elements) {
return elements.reduce((result, current) => {
return result.concat(Array.isArray(current) ? flatten(current) : current);
}, []);
};

6 years after this question was asked.
Object.assign is the answer (above) I like the most.
but is this also legal ?
let res = {};
[{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }, { c: 3 }].forEach(val => {
let key = Object.keys(val);
console.log(key[0]);
res[key] = val[key];
})

const data = [
[{ a: "a" }, { b: "b" }, { c: "c" }],
[{ d: "d" }, { e: "e" }, { f: "f" }],
[{ g: "g" }, { h: "h" }, { i: "i" }],
];
function convertToObject(array){
const response = {};
for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
const innerArray = array[i];
for (let i = 0; i < innerArray.length; i++) {
const object = innerArray[i];
const keys = Object.keys(object);
for (let j = 0; j < keys.length; j++) {
const key = keys[j];
response[key] = object[key];
}
}
}
return response;
}
console.log(convertToObject(data));

function carParts(manufacturer, model, ...parts) {
return { manufacturer, model, ...Object.assign(...parts) };
}
console.log(
carParts(
"Honda",
"2008",
{ color: "Halogen Lights" },
{ Gears: "Automatic Gears" },
{ LED: "Android LED" },
{ LED: "Android LED1" }
)
);
This is how i have done.