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

When sure that the object is a user-defined one, the easiest way to determine if UDO is empty, would be the following code:

isEmpty=
/*b.b Troy III p.a.e*/
function(x,p){for(p in x)return!1;return!0};

Even though this method is (by nature) a deductive one, - it's the quickest, and fastest possible.

a={};
isEmpty(a) >> true

a.b=1
isEmpty(a) >> false 

p.s.: !don't use it on browser-defined objects.