How to merge two arrays of objects by ID using lodash?

Question

I have two array with one common field member. how can I merge theme easily?

For example:

var arr1 = [{
  "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),
  "bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),
  "country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")
},
{
  "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),
  "bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),
  "country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")
}];

var arr2 = [{
    "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),
    "name" : 'xxxxxx',
    "age" : 25
},
{
    "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),
    "name" : 'yyyyyyyyyy',
    "age" : 26
}];

Expected:

var merge = [{
  "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),
  "bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),
  "country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb"),
  "name" : 'xxxxxx',
  "age" : 25
},
{
  "member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),
  "bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),
  "country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb"),
  "name" : 'yyyyyyyyyy',
  "age" : 26
}];

I tried

var merge = _.unionBy(arr1, arr2, 'member');

but not merged as expected. shown array1 value. can any one help me?

Answer 1

If both arrays are in the correct order; where each item corresponds to its associated member identifier then you can simply use.

var merge = _.merge(arr1, arr2);

Which is the short version of:

var merge = _.chain(arr1).zip(arr2).map(function(item) {
    return _.merge.apply(null, item);
}).value();

Or, if the data in the arrays is not in any particular order, you can look up the associated item by the member value.

var merge = _.map(arr1, function(item) {
    return _.merge(item, _.find(arr2, { 'member' : item.member }));
});

You can easily convert this to a mixin. See the example below:

_.mixin({
  'mergeByKey' : function(arr1, arr2, key) {
    var criteria = {};
    criteria[key] = null;
    return _.map(arr1, function(item) {
      criteria[key] = item[key];
      return _.merge(item, _.find(arr2, criteria));
    });
  }
});

var arr1 = [{
  "member": 'ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6")',
  "bank": 'ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc")',
  "country": 'ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")'
}, {
  "member": 'ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8")',
  "bank": 'ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc")',
  "country": 'ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")'
}];

var arr2 = [{
  "member": 'ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8")',
  "name": 'yyyyyyyyyy',
  "age": 26
}, {
  "member": 'ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6")',
  "name": 'xxxxxx',
  "age": 25
}];

var arr3 = _.mergeByKey(arr1, arr2, 'member');

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