RE: How to Find an Object Key Value Inside an Array
Hi, does anyone know how to find an object key value inside an array? For instance, if I have an array of objects called records.
var records = [{
id: 12345
type: transaction
}]
If I want to check this array to see if there’s an object that contains the ID “12345”, how would I do that? Is there a way without looping through the whole array? I know I can use the array.includes method to find a value inside a regular array. But that doesn’t seem to work because I’m looking for an object key value inside an array.
No, I do not believe there is any more ‘native’ way of doing this.
I would just do something like the following:
function findId(id, records) {
for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++) {
if (records[i].id === id) {
return true;
}
}
}
Decent article with more generalized function:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/javascript-find-object-array-based-objects-property-rafael
Ok, thanks! That’s basically what I ended up doing too. I was just seeing if there was some method that does this that I was unaware of.
If you are using SuiteScript 2.1 and have access to the ES6 array functions in this post, you could use these as well:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7364150/find-object-by-id-in-an-array-of-javascript-objects
Gotcha. Thanks!
