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user736893
user736893

Reputation:

Get unique objects from array based on single attribute

Let's say we have the following:

node[1].name = "apple";
node[1].color = "red";
node[2].name = "cherry";
node[2].color = "red";
node[3].name = "apple";
node[3].color = "green";
node[4].name = "orange";
node[4].color = "orange;

if I use jQuery.unique(node) I will get all the original nodes because they all have a different name OR color. What I want to do is only get the nodes with a unique name, which should return

node[1] (apple)
node[2] (cherry)
node[4] (orange)

It should not return 3 because it is the same fruit, even though we have green and red apples.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4543

Answers (3)

joews
joews

Reputation: 30330

This approach (forked from @David's) should have better performance for large inputs (because object[] is O(1)).

function filter(arr, attribute) {
  var out = [],
      seen = {}

  return arr.filter(function(n) {
      return (seen[n[attribute]] == undefined) 
              && (seen[n[attribute]] = 1);
  })
}

console.log(filter(node, 'name'));

http://jsfiddle.net/LEBBB/1/

Upvotes: 2

David Hellsing
David Hellsing

Reputation: 108490

Use Array.filter and a temporary array to store the dups:

function filterByName(arr) {
  var f = []
  return arr.filter(function(n) {
    return f.indexOf(n.name) == -1 && f.push(n.name)
  })
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/mbest/D6aLV/6/

Upvotes: 7

user736893
user736893

Reputation:

What about doing it like this?

var fruitNames = [];
$.each($.unique(fruits), function(i, fruit) {
    if (fruitNames.indexOf(fruit.name) == -1) {
        fruitNames.push(fruit.name);
        $('#output').append('<div>' + fruit.name + '</div>');
    }
});

Here is a working fiddle.

Obviously, instead of output.append I could just add the current fruit to uniqueFruit[] or something.

Upvotes: 0

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