I am trying to add an object to an array if the array already does not have that object.
So I have an array as follows
[{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}]
I want to check if a id:1 exist or not if not then add if yes then show an error or log a message.
I am able to achieve this using a simple array as follows.
let result =[1,2,2,3,1,4,1,4,2,3].filter((el, i, a) => i === a.indexOf(el));
I cannot figure out how to achive the same with array of objects.
Thanks
You can use some to check for duplicates like:
// array with duplicate objects {id:1}
let arr = [{id:1},{id:1},{id:2}]
function duplicateFound(arr){
const ids = arr.map(x => x.id);
return ids.some((item, idx) => ids.indexOf(item) != idx);
}
console.log(duplicateFound(arr));
// array with not duplicates
arr = [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}]
console.log(duplicateFound(arr));
new Set(ids).size !== ids.length
id for example) as the Map's item key, and then convert back to an array.You can use Array#filter, and check the length:
const arr = [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}];
const el = { id: 1 };
const exists = arr.filter(({ id }) => id === el.id).length > 0;
console.log(exists);Or you can use Array#find, which has a slight advantage over Array#filter, since it will stop as soon as an item was found.
const arr = [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}];
const el = { id: 1 };
const exists = !!arr.find(({ id }) => id === el.id);
console.log(exists);You can wrap your array with a proxy that has a set trap, to prevent the insertion of duplicates automatically:
const arr = [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}];
const arrayChangeHandler = {
set: function(target, property, value, receiver) {
if(property === 'length') {
return true;
}
const exists = !!target.find(({ id }) => id === value.id);
if(exists) {
console.log(`Id: ${value.id} exists!`); // you can return false here, and it will throw an error
} else {
target.push(value);
}
return true;
}
};
const pArr = new Proxy(arr, arrayChangeHandler);
pArr.push({ id: 1 });
pArr.push({ id: 10 });
console.log(JSON.stringify(arr));You could try inserting all values as keys to a new array then flip keys & vals
let arr = "abccba".split('');
let res = [];
arr.forEach((n) => {
res[n] = n;
});
console.log(Object.keys(res));A concern might be that if your values are numbers then you might need to recast them eg.
res = res.map(n) => +n
{id:1} == {id:1}returnsfalse. You might need to define your own way of comparing objects.JSON.stringify(obj1) === JSON.stringify(obj2)could work for simple JSON stringifiable objects. More info eg. here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1068834/….