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 memberName in ad)
{
  //Member Name: memberName
  //Member Value: ad[memberName]
}

Member means Member property, member variable, whatever you want to call it >_>

The above code will return EVERYTHING, including toString... If you only want to see if the object's prototype has been extended:

var dummyObj = {};  
for(var memberName in ad)
{
  if(typeof(dummyObj[memberName]) == typeof(ad[memberName])) continue; //note A
  //Member Name: memberName
  //Member Value: ad[memberName]

}

Note A: We check to see if the dummy object's member has the same type as our testing object's member. If it is an extend, dummyobject's member type should be "undefined"