How to check if object has any properties in JavaScript?

Question

Assuming I declare

var ad = {}; 

How can I check whether this object will contain any user-defined properties?

Answer 1

for (var hasProperties in ad) break;
if (hasProperties)
    ... // ad has properties

If you have to be safe and check for Object prototypes (these are added by certain libraries and not there by default):

var hasProperties = false;
for (var x in ad) {
    if (ad.hasOwnProperty(x)) {
        hasProperties = true;
        break;
    }
}
if (hasProperties)
    ... // ad has properties