Converting a JS object to an array using jQuery

Question

My application creates a JavaScript object, like the following:

myObj= {1:[Array-Data], 2:[Array-Data]}

But I need this object as an array.

Answer 1

You can create a simple function to do the conversion from object to array, something like this can do the job for you using pure javascript:

var objectToArray = function(obj) {
  var arr = [];
  if ('object' !== typeof obj || 'undefined' === typeof obj || Array.isArray(obj)) {
    return obj;
  } else {
    Object.keys(obj).map(x=>arr.push(obj[x]));
  }
  return arr;
};

or this one:

var objectToArray = function(obj) {
  var arr =[];
  for(let o in obj) {
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(o)) {
      arr.push(obj[o]);
    }
  }
  return arr;
};

and call and use the function as below:

var obj = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c', 4:'d', 5:'e'};
objectToArray(obj); // return ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

Also in the future we will have something called Object.values(obj), similar to Object.keys(obj) which will return all properties for you as an array, but not supported in many browsers yet...