I'm merging two objects together to create a filter object. However I want to group the merged objects property values where the keys are the same.
So...
[{category: 'furniture'}, {category: 'mirrors'}, {availability: 'in_stock'}]
becomes
[{category: ['furniture', 'mirrors']}, {availability: 'in_stock'}]
any ideas?
With lodash you merge the entire array to a new object by spreading into _.mergeWith(). The customizer should use empty arrays as default values for the current values, and concat the values. Use _.map() to convert back to an array.
const data = [{category: 'furniture'}, {category: 'mirrors'}, {availability: 'in_stock'}];
const result = _.map(
_.mergeWith({}, ...data, (a = [], b = [], key) => a.concat(b)),
(val, key) => ({ [key]: val })
)
console.log(result)<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.21/lodash.min.js" integrity="sha512-WFN04846sdKMIP5LKNphMaWzU7YpMyCU245etK3g/2ARYbPK9Ub18eG+ljU96qKRCWh+quCY7yefSmlkQw1ANQ==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>Using vanilla JS, reduce the array to a Map using the objects' keys as the keys of the Map, with an empty array as the value, and push the objects' values into the arrays. Use Array.from() to convert the Map to an array.
const data = [{category: 'furniture'}, {category: 'mirrors'}, {availability: 'in_stock'}];
const result = Array.from(
data.reduce((acc, obj) => {
Object.entries(obj)
.forEach(([key, val]) => {
if(!acc.has(key)) acc.set(key, [])
acc.get(key).push(val)
})
return acc
}, new Map()),
([key, val]) => ({ [key]: val })
)
console.log(result)You can use reduce like this:
const data = [
{ category: 'furniture' },
{ category: 'mirrors' },
{ availability: 'in_stock' }
];
const result = data.reduce(
(a, x) => {
const key = Object.keys(x)[0]; // find the key of the current object
if (!a.tmp[key]) { // if the current key doesn't exist in the lookup object (tmp) yet ...
a.tmp[key] = []; // create an empty array in the lookup object for the current key
a.result.push({ [key]: a.tmp[key] }); // push the current object to the result
}
a.tmp[key].push(x[key]); // push the current value to the array
return a;
},
{ result: [], tmp: {} },
).result;
console.log(result);I'm sure there are easier ways to achieve this, but that's the best I can come up with right now.
we can also achieve this by using forEach loop :
const input = [{category: 'furniture'}, {category: 'mirrors'}, {availability: 'in_stock'}];
const resultObj = {};
const resultArr = [];
input.forEach((obj) => {
resultObj[Object.keys(obj)[0]] = [];
})
input.forEach((obj) => {
resultObj[Object.keys(obj)[0]].push(obj[Object.keys(obj)[0]]);
resultArr.push(resultObj);
})
console.log([...new Set(resultArr)]);