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sal3jfc
sal3jfc

Reputation: 767

Manipulating an API response to have part of the Object as a Key?

I have data that comes back from an API as an array of Objects.

const data = 
  [

      { 
        name: "Charles",
        age: 42, 
        height: 76
      },
      { 
        name: "Jim",
        age: 32, 
        height: 56
      },
      { 
        name: "Ed",
        age: 22, 
        height: 76
      }
  ]

rather than just returning that, return data, I'd like to have it where the name is the key so that I can do a lookup on data, like data["Jim"] and get the object back.

const data = 
      [
         {
          "Charles": 
             { 
               age: 42, 
               height: 76
            },
         },
         {
          "Jim": 
             { 
               age: 32, 
               height: 56
            },
         }
     ]

how can I manipulate the data to come back that way after getting it back from the API in the original format listed first?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (1)

rubrick
rubrick

Reputation: 56

What you're looking for is this

const result = data.reduce((acc, curr) => ({...acc, [curr.name]: {age: curr.age, height: curr.height}}), {});

now you can access like result['Jim']. You needed an object, not an array.

Upvotes: 4

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