I'm calling an external service and I get the returned domain object like this:
var domainObject = responseObject.json();
This converts the response object into a js object. I can then easily access a property on this object like this
var users = domainObject.Users
Users is a collection of key/value pairs like this:
1: "Bob Smith"
2: "Jane Doe"
3: "Bill Jones"
But CDT shows users as Object type and users[0] returns undefined. So how can I get a handle to the first item in the collection? I'm assuming that some type of type cast is needed but not sure how I should go about doing this
UPDATE
Here is one way I could access the values:
//get first user key
Object.keys(responseObject.json().Users)[0]
//get first user value
Object.values(responseObject.json().Users)[0]
But I need to databind through ng2 so I was hoping for a simpler way like this:
<div>
<div *ngFor="let user of users">
User Name: {{user.value}}
<br>
</div>
</div>
Maybe I should just create a conversion function in my ng2 component which converts the object into what I need before setting the databinding variable?
UPDATED ANSWER
So after scouring through a few docs I found the "newish" Object.entries() javascript function. You can read about it here. Pretty cool.
Anyways, give this a try. I am ashamed to say that I don't have time to test it, but it should get you going in the right direction.
usersArray = []
// Turn Users object into array of [key, value] sub arrays.
userPairs = Object.entries(users);
// Add the users back into an array in the original order.
for (i=0; i < userPairs; i++) {
usersArray.push(_.find(userPairs, function(userPair) { return userPair[0] == i }))
}
ORIGINAL ANSWER
I would use either underscore.js or lodash to do this. Both are super helpful libraries in terms of dealing with data structures and keeping code to a minimum. I would personally use the _.values function in lodash. Read more about it here.. Then you could use users[0] to retrieve the first item.
The only caveat to this is that lodash doesn't guarantee the iteration sequence will be the same as it is when the object is passed in.
users = _.values(users);
console.log(users[0]);
How about this:
let user= this.users.find(() => true)
This should return the "first" one.
If your initial object is just a plain object, how do you know it is sorted. Property members are not sorted, ie: looping order is nor guaranteed. I´d extract the user names into an array and the sort that array by the second word. This should work (as long as surnames are the second word, and only single spaces are used as separators).
var l=[];
for(var x in users) {
push.l(users[x]);
}
var l1=l.sort ( (a,b) => return a.split(" ")[1]<b.split(" ")[1]);
Related
I have this array
switched = {"Restaurant":1,"Hotel":2,"Beauty shop":3,"Physiotherapist":4,"Dentist":5,"Bar":6,"Coffee shop":7}
and this object
result = [{"Google Place URL":"http://www.restaurant.com","Business Type":"Restaurant"},{"Google Place URL":"http://www.hotel.com","Business Type":"Hotel"}]
I want to validate if every item of the result contains words of switched
also, I'm already working with a for that returns each item separately
item[csvBusinessType] = Restaurant
how can I validate if item[csvBusinessType] is included in switched?
I have tried with
let n = switched.includes(item[csvBusinessType]);
but I get Uncaught TypeError: switched.includes is not a function
There is not good native method for this. Better to use lodash library https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash
Here is an example
const _ = require('lodash');
console.log( _.includes(switched, item[csvBusinessType]));
I converted the object to string and used includes, I don't know if it will be the best way, but I think it is the most supported by browsers
let businessListArray = JSON.stringify(switched);
let checkBusiness = businessListArray.includes(item[csvBusinessType]);
I want to validate if every item of the result contains words of switched
If you want to validate that every item of the result object array contains words of the switched array, you should look into JS Array methods and working with Objects, just as #Andreas suggested.
In this specific case, your switched object has keys that appear to match the csvBusinessType of your item objects. This is helpful as we can use Object.keys() to grab all the keys of your switched object as an array of strings.
const businessTypes = Object.keys(switched) // = ["Restaurant","Hotel","Beauty shop","Physiotherapist","Dentist","Bar","Coffee shop"]
Now that we have grabbed the keys that you want to check against, we can use the JS Array method every() to perform a test against every object in your result object array. In this case, we will be testing that the obect's Business Type is included in our newly created businessTypes array.
const resultsValid = result.every((resultObject) => businessTypes.includes(resultObject["Business Type"]));
resultsValid is a boolean that is true if all objects in result had a Business type that matched one of the keys of your switched object.
NOTE: You may want to check Letter Casing before some of these comparisons unless you want to explicitly match only exact matches ("Beauty shop" will NOT match "Beauty Shop" for example).
I'm mapping an array and based on data i'm pushing Option elements into an array as follows
let make_children: any | null | undefined = [];
buyerActivityResult && buyerActivityResult.simulcastMyAccount.data.map((item: { make: {} | null | undefined; }, key: any) => {
make_children.push(
<Option key={key}>{item.make}</Option>
);
});
Following data array has several objects and these objects have an attribute called model.
buyerActivityResult.simulcastMyAccount.data
I want to prevent pusing Options to my array if the attribute model has duplicate data. It only has to push once for all similar model values.
How can i do it?
I tried something like this
buyerActivityResult && buyerActivityResult.simulcastMyAccount.data.map((item: { model: {} | null | undefined; }, key: any) => {
model_children.indexOf(item.model) === -1 && model_children.push(
<Option key={key}>{item.model}</Option>
);
});
But still duplicate values are being pushed into my array.
Its difficult to tell what you are trying to achieve but it looks like a map may not be the right tool for the job.
A map returns the same sized length array as that of the original array that you are calling map on.
If my assumptions are correct, your buyerActivityResult.simulcastMyAccount.data array has duplicate values, and you want to remove these duplicates based on the model property? One way to achieve this would be to use the lodash library for this, using the uniq function:
const uniqueResults = _.uniq(buyerActivityResult.simulcastMyAccount.data, (item) => item.model);
The Array.prototype.map() method is supposed to be used for manipulating the data contained into the array performing the operation. To manipulate data from other variables I recommend to use a for-loop block.
If item.model is an object, the function Array.prototype.indexOf() always returns -1 because it compares the memory address of the objects and does not do a deep comparison of all properties values.
The usual solution to remove duplicate data from an array is converting the Array into a Set then back to an Array. Unfortunately, this works only on primary type values (string, number, boolean, etc...) and not on objects.
Starting here, I will review your source code and do some changes and explain why I would apply those changes. First of all, assuming the make_children array does not receive new attribution later in your code, I would turn it into a constant. Because of the initialization, I think the declaration is overtyped.
const make_children: any[] = [];
Then I think you try to do too much things at the same time. It makes reading of the source code difficult for your colleagues, for you too (maybe not today but what about in few weeks...) and it make testing, debugging and improvements nearly impossible. Let's break it down in at least 2 steps. First one is transforming the data. For example remove duplicate. And the second one create the Option element base on the result of the previous operation.
const data: { make: any }[] = buyerActivityResult?.simulcastMyAccount?.data || [];
let options = data.map((item) => !!item.model); // removing items without model.
// Here the hard part, removing duplicates.
// - if the models inside your items have a property with unique value (like an ID) you can implement a function to do so yourself. Take a look at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2218999/remove-duplicates-from-an-array-of-objects-in-javascript
// - or you can use Lodash library like suggested Rezaa91 in its answer
options = _.uniq(data, (item) => item.model);
Now you only have to create the Option elements.
for (var i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
model_children.push(<Option key={i}>{options[i].model}</Option>);
}
// OR using the Array.prototype.map method (in this case, do not declare `model_children` at the beginning)
const model_children:[] = options.map((opt:any, i:number) => <Option key={i}>{opt.model}</Option>);
Despite the lack of context of the execution of the code you provided I hope my answer will help you to find a solution and encourage you to write clearer source code (for the sake of your colleagues and your future self).
PS: I do not know anything about ReactJs. forgive me my syntax mistakes.
Basically I'm doing practice exercises where I need to list the properties of an object, and I've done this:
/* Write a JS program to list the properties of a JS object*/
console.log("EX 1");
let student = {
name: "Dollar",
job: "Unemployed",
age: 18
};
let listing = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(student); // lists the properties of a JS object
console.log(listing.toString());
The output seems correct, but when I go to the resolution, it uses functions and if statements(if needed I'll provide them).
Is anything wrong with my code?
In your example code, listing is already a list of the properties of the object, meaning the names of the keys of all key-value pairs in the dict-like structure.
There doesn't seem to be a good reason to use .toString() to convert the list itself into a string.
The goal of the comment "Write a JS program..." is probably simply to get you to write a for-loop to loop through the object, which is iterable.
for (let item of obj1) {
console.log(item);
}
Basically I have a complex object that retrieves the GPT API (google publisher tag) with this function:
googletag.pubads().getSlots();
The object value is something like this:
I need to know if there is a way to compare the value of each property with an X value without getting a problem of recursivity (because the object is huge and i need to to that validation several times)
Also, I tried to convert that object into a JSON with JSON.stringify(), and then tried to get the value with a regex, faster, but with this option, I have the problem with Cyclic Object Value.
Any suggestions ?
it's more simple. try it to convert it into an array and later use a filter for comparative with your value.
var objGoogle = {};
var arrayObjectGoogle = [objGoogle];
var filter = arrayObjectGoogle.filter(function(obj){
obj.yourAttr == yourValue; });
this will give you a second array with the values found it. later, index the array for pick up the value do you need.
I have a variable called uids
var uids = [];
Then I write some value to it property
uids[16778923] = "3fd6335d-b0e4-4d77-b304-d30c651ed509"
But before it
if (!uids[user.id]) {
uids[user.id] = generateKey(user);
}
This thing behaves ok. If I try to get the value of it property
uids[currentUser.id]
It will give me a value of this property. If I try to call some methods like
Object.keys(uids);
It will give me, what I expected. And here the mystery comes...
uids;
RAM rest in piece. See the node eating ram
I am very confused now. What's wrong?
This is because you are creating a huge array and node will reserve memory for it - who knows what comes. I'd say that's a scenario where you would use a Map (or a plain object, but Map feels better here.
var uids = new Map();
var key = 456464564564654;
if (! uids.has(key)) {
uids.set(key, generateKey(user))
}
You are creating an empty array (length is zero), then you assign some value to an arbitrary index. This will make the array grow as big as the index and assign the value to that index. Look at this example using node.js REPL:
> var a = []
undefined
> a[5] = "something"
'something'
> a
[ , , , , , 'something' ]
> a.length
6
Instead of creating an array, you could create a Map() or an common javascript object (singleton). Javascript objects behave like Maps but only Strings can be used as keys. If you assign a Number to be key, javascript will convert it to String automatically.
Personally, I would go with objects because they perform better. Instantiating an object takes longer than instantiating a Map (and it doesn't seem like you need to create several groups of "uids"), but once done, adding new keys and retrieving values from any key in faster when using common objects. At least that's how things go in my node.js v6.7.0 on ubuntu 14.04 but you could try for yourself. And it would also make the least alteration to your code.
var uids = {} // common/ordinary empty javascript object instead of array.
if (!uids[user.id]) { // getting value from one key works the same.
uids[user.id] = generateKey(user) // assignment works the same.
}
////
uids[16778923] = "3fd6335d-b0e4-4d77-b304-d30c651ed509" // key will be "16778923".
uids[16778923] // getting value for key "16778923" can be done using 16778923 instead of "16778923".
////
uids[currentUser.id] // still returning values like this.
Object.keys(uids) // still returning an array of keys like this. but they are all Strings.