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Son Dang
Son Dang

Reputation: 153

Empty array when using _.unique to return distinct value in object

I have an object like this

data: [
  {
    "Type":"100, S4",
    "Model":"1 serie, e82",
    "Manufacturer":"BMW",
    "Vehicle":"Cars"
  },
  {
    "Type":"type 2",
    "Model":"a serie",
    "Manufacturer":"Toyota",
    "Vehicle":"Cars"
  },
  {
    "Type":"type 3",
    "Model":"v4",
    "Manufacturer":"Toyota",
    "Vehicle":"SUVs"
  }
]

then I used jquery and lodash library with expect to return distinct value from the object.

Tried #1:

  $.each( data, function( i, value ) {
    var vehicles = _.uniqBy(value);
    console.log(vehicles);
  });

Result: got 3 empty arrays printed in console.log

Tried #2:

  $.each( data, function( i, value ) {
    var vehicles = _.uniqBy(value.Vehicle);
    console.log(vehicles);
  });

Result: 4 arrays within split characters

(4) ["C", "a", "r", "s"]
(4) ["C", "a", "r", "s"]
(4) ["S", "U", "V", "s"]

I expected to got an array within

["Cars", "SUVs"]

How could I deal with it? Thanks for help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 952

Answers (2)

ryeballar
ryeballar

Reputation: 30088

You can use lodash#map to get all Vehicle property strings, and then use lodash#uniq to remove all duplicate strings.

var result = _(data).map('Vehicle').uniq().value();


var data = [
  {
    "Type":"100, S4",
    "Model":"1 serie, e82",
    "Manufacturer":"BMW",
    "Vehicle":"Cars"
  },
  {
    "Type":"type 2",
    "Model":"a serie",
    "Manufacturer":"Toyota",
    "Vehicle":"Cars"
  },
  {
    "Type":"type 3",
    "Model":"v4",
    "Manufacturer":"Toyota",
    "Vehicle":"SUVs"
  }
];

var result = _(data).map('Vehicle').uniq().value();

console.log(result);
body > div { top: 0; }
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.4/lodash.js"></script>

Upvotes: 1

LazyDeveloper
LazyDeveloper

Reputation: 619

Try this 

var vehicles  = _.uniqBy(data, function (e) {
      return e.Vehicle;
    }).map(function(veh){
    return veh.Vehicle;
});   
console.log(vehicles);

Upvotes: 1

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