How to sort a Javascript object, or convert it to an array?

Question

I have some JSON data that I get from a server. In my JavaScript, I want to do some sorting on it. I think the sort() function will do what I want.

However, it seems

Answer 1

I wrote a small function to recursively convert an object with properties that may also be objects to a multi-dimensional array. This code is dependent on underscore or lodash for the forEach and toArray methods.

function deepToArray(obj) {
    var copy = [];


    var i = 0;
    if (obj.constructor == Object ||
        obj.constructor == Array) {

        _.forEach(obj, process);

    } else {

        copy = obj;

    }


    function process(current, index, collection) {

        var processed = null;
        if (current.constructor != Object &&
            current.constructor != Array) {
            processed = current;
        } else {
            processed = deepToArray(_.toArray(current));
        }

        copy.push(processed);

    }

    return copy;
}

Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gGT2D/

Note: This was written to convert an object that was originally an array back into an array, so any non-array index key values will be lost.