sort object properties and JSON.stringify

Question

My application has a large array of objects, which I stringify and save them to the disk. Unfortunately, when the objects in the array are manipulated, and sometimes replac

Answer 1

I took the answer from @Jason Parham and made some improvements

function sortObject(obj, arraySorter) {
    if(typeof obj !== 'object')
        return obj
    if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        if (arraySorter) {
            obj.sort(arraySorter);
        }
        for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
            obj[i] = sortObject(obj[i], arraySorter);
        }
        return obj;
    }
    var temp = {};
    var keys = [];
    for(var key in obj)
        keys.push(key);
    keys.sort();
    for(var index in keys)
        temp[keys[index]] = sortObject(obj[keys[index]], arraySorter);       
    return temp;
}

This fixes the issue of arrays being converted to objects, and it also allows you to define how to sort arrays.

Example:

var data = { content: [{id: 3}, {id: 1}, {id: 2}] };
sortObject(data, (i1, i2) => i1.id - i2.id)

output:

{content:[{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}]}