Best way to flatten JS object (keys and values) to a single depth array

I have written this small function to get all keys and values of an object and store them into an array. The object might contain arrays as values...

Object { 0: [1,2,3,4] } to [0,1,2,3,4] converting all elements to integers

I wonder whether there is a faster/cleaner way to do so:

function flattenObject(obj) {
    // Returns array with all keys and values of an object
    var array = [];
    $.each(obj, function (key, value) {
        array.push(key);
        if ($.isArray(value)) {
            $.each(value, function (index, element) {
                array.push(element);
            });
        }
        else {
            array.push(value);
        }
    });

    return array
}

Solution 1:

I wanted to flatten my deep object to one level depth. None of the above solutions worked for me.

My input:

{
    "user": {
        "key_value_map": {
            "CreatedDate": "123424",
            "Department": {
                "Name": "XYZ"
            }
        }
    }
}

Expected output:

{
    "user.key_value_map.CreatedDate": "123424",
    "user.key_value_map.Department.Name": "XYZ"
}

Code that worked for me:

function flattenObject(ob) {
    var toReturn = {};

    for (var i in ob) {
        if (!ob.hasOwnProperty(i)) continue;

        if ((typeof ob[i]) == 'object' && ob[i] !== null) {
            var flatObject = flattenObject(ob[i]);
            for (var x in flatObject) {
                if (!flatObject.hasOwnProperty(x)) continue;

                toReturn[i + '.' + x] = flatObject[x];
            }
        } else {
            toReturn[i] = ob[i];
        }
    }
    return toReturn;
}

Solution 2:

You could just concat all keys and values. (It does not solve the type casting to number for keys.)

var object =  { 0: [1, 2, 3, 4] },
    result = Object.keys(object).reduce(function (r, k) {
        return r.concat(k, object[k]);
    }, []);
    
console.log(result);

Solution 3:

Flattening Object can be done using recursion as below :

Sample Input

const obj = {
    name: "test",
    address: {
        personal: "abc",
        office: {
            building: 'random',
            street: 'some street'
        }
    }
}

Expected Output

{
    name : "test",
    address_personal: "abc"
    address_office_building: "random"
    address_office_street: "some street"
}

My Solution

  function flattenObj(obj, parent, res = {}){
    for(let key in obj){
        let propName = parent ? parent + '_' + key : key;
        if(typeof obj[key] == 'object'){
            flattenObj(obj[key], propName, res);
        } else {
            res[propName] = obj[key];
        }
    }
    return res;
}

Hope it helps