Wednesday 30 November 2016

Transforming an object with arrays into an array of objects with Javascript

This question was a lot of fun and I spent a happy 10 minutes figuring out how to transform the data. This seems to do the job:

var obj = {
    "pharmacy": [
        "Walmart",
        "Safeway",
        "Kroger Pharmacy"
    ],
    "price": [
        58.14,
        65.45,
        66.76
    ]
}, data = [];

for(var i = 0; i < obj[Object.keys(obj)[0]].length; i++){
    var tempObject = {};
    for(var key in obj){
        tempObject[key] = obj[key][i];
    }
    data.push(tempObject)
}

console.log(data);

I'm only putting it up here so I don't forget how to do it again if I need to do so. It's also worthwhile noting that the initial arrays need to be the same length or things could go really quite wrong.

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