A mapping function for objects not arrays
I have something
myObject = { 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3 }
I am looking for a native method, similar to Array.prototype.map
that would be used as follows.
newObject = myObject.map(function (value, label) {
return value * value;
});
// newObject is now { 'a': 1, 'b': 4, 'c': 9 }
Does JavaScript have such a map
function for objects? (I want this for Node.JS, so I don't care about cross-browser issues.)
There is no native map
to the Object
object, but how about this.
var myObject = { 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3 };
Object.keys(myObject).map(function(key, index) {
myObject[key] *= 2;
});
console.log(myObject);
// => { 'a': 2, 'b': 4, 'c': 6 }
But you could easily iterate over an object using for ... in
.
var myObject = { 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3 };
for (var key in myObject) {
if (myObject.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
myObject[key] *= 2;
}
}
console.log(myObject);
// { 'a': 2, 'b': 4, 'c': 6 }
Update
Many people are mentioning that the previous methods do not return a new object but rather work on the object itself I had the desire to add another solution that returns a new object and leaves the original object as it is
var myObject = { 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3 };
// returns a new object with the values at each key mapped using mapFn(value)
function objectMap(object, mapFn) {
return Object.keys(object).reduce(function(result, key) {
result[key] = mapFn(object[key])
return result
}, {})
}
var newObject = objectMap(myObject, function(value) {
return value * 2
})
console.log(newObject);
// => { 'a': 2, 'b': 4, 'c': 6 }
console.log(myObject);
// => { 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3 }
Array.prototype.reduce
reduces an array to a single value by somewhat merging the previous value with the current. The chain is initialized by an empty object {}
. On every iteration a new key of myObject
is added with twice the key as the value.
Update
With new ES6 features, there is a more elegant way to express objectMap
.
const objectMap = (obj, fn) =>
Object.fromEntries(
Object.entries(obj).map(
([k, v], i) => [k, fn(v, k, i)]
)
)
const myObject = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
console.log(objectMap(myObject, v => 2 * v))