How would one take a javascript array of objects such as:
my objArr = [
{key:Mon Sep 23 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:42},
{key:Mon Sep 24 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:78},
{key:Mon Sep 25 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:23},
{key:Mon Sep 23 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:54}]
and merge duplicate keys by summing the values. In order to get something like this:
my reducedObjArr = [
{key:Mon Sep 23 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:96},
{key:Mon Sep 24 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:78},
{key:Mon Sep 25 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400, val:23}]
I have tried iterating and adding to a new array, but this didn't work:
var reducedObjArr = [];
var item = null, key = null;
for(var i=0; i<objArr.length; i++) {
item=objArr[i];
key = Object.keys(item)[0];
item=item[key];
if(!result[key]){
result[key] = item;
}else{
result[key] += item;}
}a
You should be assigning each object not found to the result with its .key
property.
If it is found, then you need to add its .val
.
var temp = {};
var obj = null;
for(var i=0; i < objArr.length; i++) {
obj=objArr[i];
if(!temp[obj.key]) {
temp[obj.key] = obj;
} else {
temp[obj.key].val += obj.val;
}
}
var result = [];
for (var prop in temp)
result.push(temp[prop]);
Also, part of the problem was that you were reusing the item
variable to reference the value of .key
, so you lost reference to the object.