Map array of objects

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Please read carefully the question, this is not a duplicate of:

Let's consider the following array of object:

var obj = [{ 'key1' : 'value1' }, { 'key2' : 'value2' }];

I would like to map the array to get keys and values for each object. Something like:

obj.map((key, val) => console.log(key, val));

I already try many stuff like Object.entries(obj) but it always results in complicated solution with many brackets like Object.entries(obj)[0][1]

Is there a simple, nice and efficient way to map an array of object? Note I need key and value for each object

What is the expected output value, to what do you want to map the array of objects? Your "something like" only does log the keys and values, which is trivial and does not need map. What exactly do you need? — Bergi
– Bergi, Commented Jan 25, 2020 at 15:20
I want to create a HTTP request like key1=value1&key2=value2, but I already know how to do that, I just have difficulties accessing the object keys and values. — Fifi
– Fifi, Commented Jan 25, 2020 at 15:23
Please show your code then. It seems you have no problem with iterating through the array, but just getting key and value from the object? The solution to that would be to use a less weird input format - why an array of single-property objects instead of one object with multiple properties that you could simply enumerate? — Bergi
– Bergi, Commented Jan 25, 2020 at 15:28
@Fifi what final result are you looking for? Is your expected result an array, or a single obj, and what values are in it? — nonopolarity
– nonopolarity, Commented Jan 25, 2020 at 15:31

nonopolarity · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-25 15:54:27Z

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You seem like you only want to print it out or access them:

.map changes an array to a different array, which doesn't seem like what you are looking for.

var objs = [{ 'key1' : 'value1' }, { 'key2' : 'value2' }];

objs.forEach(obj => { 
  for (let p in obj) console.log(p, obj[p]); 
});

If you are looking for key1=value1&key2=value2 as the answer and you know you only have 1 key and value in each object, then it is:

let objs = [{ 'key1' : 'value1' }, { 'key2' : 'value2' }];

let s = objs.map(obj => `${Object.keys(obj)[0]}=${Object.values(obj)[0]}`).join("&");

console.log(s);

But you probably want to use encodeURIComponent() to encode the params, making it:

let objs = [{ 'key1' : 'value1 hello' }, { 'key2' : 'value2 & 3' }];

let s = objs.map(obj => `${encodeURIComponent(Object.keys(obj)[0])}=${(encodeURIComponent(Object.values(obj)[0]))}`).join("&");

console.log(s);

If your keys are all alphanumeric and underscore characters, then you shouldn't need to use encodeURIComponent() on the key.

edited Jan 25, 2020 at 15:54

answered Jan 25, 2020 at 15:27

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Fifi Over a year ago

Thank you, but the question is about the map() method. I know how to loop over an array.

nonopolarity Over a year ago

@Fifi please see second part of answer

Fifi Over a year ago

Yes, that it. Not as simple as I expected, but I guess this is the shortest syntax. Thank you.

jacopotaba · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-25 15:24:43Z

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var obj = [{ 'key1' : 'value1' }, { 'key2' : 'value2' }];
obj.forEach(el => {
  for (var prop in el) {
    console.log(prop, el[prop])
  }
})

// results: 
// key1 value1
// key2 value2

answered Jan 25, 2020 at 15:24

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Fifi Over a year ago

I want to use the map method.

jacopotaba Over a year ago

use .map insted of .foreach, it works also on this way

Bergi Over a year ago

@Fifi But why? You still haven't told us yet what kind of array value you want to produce, and if you don't produce another array you should not use map.

ROOT · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-25 19:36:46Z

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Not as clean as what @nopole answer, but this kind achieve what you want for a key, value object.

var objs = [{ 'key1' : 'value1' }, { 'key2' : 'value2' }];

objs.forEach(obj => { 
  // loop over keys-and-values
  for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
    console.log(key, value);
  }
});

Also this works for object with more than one key:

var objs = [{ 'key1' : 'value1', "key2":"value2" }, { 'key3' : 'value3' }];

objs.forEach(obj => { 
  // loop over keys-and-values
  for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
    console.log(key, value);
  }
});

answered Jan 25, 2020 at 19:36

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