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Javascript - How do I map an array of objects to a datatable with column names?

Time:10-08

I have some data like this, an array of objects:

source = [{
  day: 1,
  deliveries: 16,
  hours: 9
}, {
  day: 2,
  deliveries: 19,
  hours: 11
}]

Which I would like to have in this format:

source = (['day', 'deliveries', 'hours'],
          ['1', '16', '9'],
          ['2', '19', '11'])

Sort of like a table. I read up a little on mapping arrays and tried this:

const datatable = source.map(d => Array.from(Object.keys(d)))
console.log(datatable)
// [["day", "deliveries", "hours"], ["day", "deliveries", "hours"]]

And this:

const datatable = source.map(d => Array.from(Object.values(d)))
console.log(datatable)
// [[1, 16, 9], [2, 19, 11]]

Each gives me half of what I want. I tried this:

let datatable = source.map(d => Array.from(Object.keys(d)))
let datatable2 = source.map(d => Array.from(Object.values(d)))

datatable = datatable[1]
let combined = datatable.concat(datatable2);
console.log(combined)
///["day", "deliveries", "hours", [1, 16, 9], [2, 19, 11]]

But even here the column names are not being combined correctly, and this way seems a little messy. How do I have the keys be on top (like column names would be) and the values following them?

CodePudding user response:

Assuming you want source to be an array of arrays (common for table-like structures), get the keys once, then add each row array mapping the object's properties to the key for that index:

const keys = Object.keys(source[0]);
const result = [keys, ...source.map(obj => keys.map(key => obj[key]))];

Live Example:

Note that this assumes a couple of things:

  1. The source array always has at least one object in it.
  2. The objects in the source array all have the same set of properties.
  3. You want the keys to be in the order in which they appear in the first object in the array. (JavaScript object properties do have a defined order now, but using that order is almost never a good idea, so you might want to do some kind of sort operation on keys.)

CodePudding user response:

You are almost there. Just use [0] to get the first item to get only keys. And then combine the array using ....

let source = [{
  day: 1,
  deliveries: 16,
  hours: 9
}, {
  day: 2,
  deliveries: 19,
  hours: 11
}]

let ansArray = Object.keys(source[0]);
let datatable = source.map(d => Array.from(Object.values(d)))

let combined = [ansArray,...datatable];
console.log(combined);

CodePudding user response:

Array.from(Object.keys(d)) and Array.from(Object.values(d)) will return the wrong data if the order of property is wrong.

const source = [{
  day: 1,
  deliveries: 16,
  hours: 9
}, {
  day: 2,
  deliveries: 19,
  hours: 11
}]

const datatable = source.reduce((acc, item, index) => {
   if (index == 0) {
     acc.push(Object.keys(item));
   }
   const newRow = acc[0].reduce((rowAcc, prop) => {
     rowAcc.push(item[prop]);
     return rowAcc;
   }, []);
   
   acc.push(newRow);
  return acc;
}, [])

console.log(datatable);

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