I have an array of objects like this:
[
{ "key": "fruit", "value": "apple" },
{ "key": "color", "value": "red" },
{ "key": "location", "value": "garden" }
]
I need to convert it to the following format:
[
{ "fruit": "apple" },
{ "color": "red" },
{ "location": "garden" }
]
How can this be done using JavaScript?
You can use .map
var data = [
{"key":"fruit","value":"apple"},
{"key":"color","value":"red"},
{"key":"location","value":"garden"}
];
var result = data.map(function (e) {
var element = {};
element[e.key] = e.value;
return element;
});
console.log(result);also if you use ES2015 you can do it like this
var result = data.map((e) => {
return {[e.key]: e.value};
});
Using an arrow function, with the data called arr
arr.map(e => {
var o = {};
o[e.key] = e.value;
return o;
});
This generates a new Array and does not modify the original
It can be simplified down to one line as
arr.map(e => ({[e.key]: e.value}));
If you can't assume arrow function support yet, you would write this longhand
arr.map(function (e) {
var o = {};
o[e.key] = e.value;
return o;
});
Using map (as suggested in other answers) or the following will do what you want...
var data = [{"key":"fruit","value":"apple"},{"key":"color","value":"red"},{"key":"location","value":"garden"}];
var obj = {};
for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
obj[data[i]["key"]] = data[i]["value"];
}
In Javascript, obj.property and obj['property'] return same things. obj['property'] is more flexible because the key 'property' could be a string with some space :
obj['pro per ty'] // work
obj.pro per ty // not work
or
var a = 'property';
obj.a == obj.property // => false
obj[a] == obj.property // => true
So you could try that.
var data = [{"key":"fruit","value":"apple"},{"key":"color","value":"red"},{"key":"location","value":"garden"}]
var new_data = [];
var data_length = data.length; // just a little optimisation for-loop
for (var i = 0; i < data_length; i++) {
var item = data[i]; // to have a vision close of foreach-loop (foreach item of collection)
new_data[i] = {};
new_data[i][item.key] = item.value;
}
console.log(new_data);
// [{"fruit":"apple"},{"color":"red"},{"location":"garden"}]
What you currently have is an array of object, each having two attributes, key and value. If you are not aware of map, you can always run a forEach loop on this array and rearrange the data. Try something like below:
function() {
var newArray = [];
oldArray.forEach(function(x){
var obj= {};
obj[x.key] = x.value;
newArray.push(obj);
});
console.log(newArray);
}
here oldArray is your original data
