How do I create JavaScript array (JSON format) dynamically?
I am trying the create the following:
var employees = {
"accounting": [ // accounting is an array in employees.
{
"firstName": "John", // First element
"lastName": "Doe",
"age": 23
},
{
"firstName": "Mary", // Second Element
"lastName": "Smith",
"age": 32
}
] // End "accounting" array.
} // End Employees
I started with
var employees = new Array();
How do I continue to create the array dynamically (might change firstName
with variable)? I don't seem to get the nested array right.
Our array of objects
var someData = [
{firstName: "Max", lastName: "Mustermann", age: 40},
{firstName: "Hagbard", lastName: "Celine", age: 44},
{firstName: "Karl", lastName: "Koch", age: 42},
];
with for...in
var employees = {
accounting: []
};
for(var i in someData) {
var item = someData[i];
employees.accounting.push({
"firstName" : item.firstName,
"lastName" : item.lastName,
"age" : item.age
});
}
or with Array.prototype.map()
, which is much cleaner:
var employees = {
accounting: []
};
someData.map(function(item) {
employees.accounting.push({
"firstName" : item.firstName,
"lastName" : item.lastName,
"age" : item.age
});
}
var accounting = [];
var employees = {};
for(var i in someData) {
var item = someData[i];
accounting.push({
"firstName" : item.firstName,
"lastName" : item.lastName,
"age" : item.age
});
}
employees.accounting = accounting;
var student = [];
var obj = {
'first_name': name,
'last_name': name,
'age': age,
}
student.push(obj);
What I do is something just a little bit different from @Chase answer:
var employees = {};
// ...and then:
employees.accounting = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < someArray.length; i++) {
var temp_item = someArray[i];
// Maybe, here make something like:
// temp_item.name = 'some value'
employees.accounting.push({
"firstName" : temp_item.firstName,
"lastName" : temp_item.lastName,
"age" : temp_item.age
});
}
And that work form me!
I hope it could be useful for some body else!