How to find whether object exist in array or not javascript

Question

I have an array of objects in javascript. Something similar to this :

    var objectArray = [
         { "Name" : "A", "Id" : "1" },
         { "Name" : "B", "Id" : "2" },
         { "Name" : "C", "Id" : "3" },
         { "Name" : "D", "Id" : "4" }
    ];

Now i am trying to find out whether an object with a given property Name value exist in the array or not through in built function like inArray, indexOf etc. Means if i have only a string C than is this possible to check whether an obejct with property Name C exist in the array or not with using inbuilt functions like indexOf, inArray etc ?

Check this out:- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4587061/how-to-determine-if-object-is-in-array — Rahul Tripathi, Nov 03 '12 at 08:47

David Barker · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-03T08:56:36.363

Rather than use index of, similar to the comment linked answer from Rahul Tripathi, I would use a modified version to pull the object by name rather than pass the entire object.

function pluckByName(inArr, name, exists)
{
    for (i = 0; i < inArr.length; i++ )
    {
        if (inArr[i].name == name)
        {
            return (exists === true) ? true : inArr[i];
        }
    }
}

Usage

// Find whether object exists in the array
var a = pluckByName(objectArray, 'A', true);

// Pluck the object from the array
var b = pluckByName(objectArray, 'B');

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '12 at 08:50

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var found = $.map(objectArray, function(val) {
    if(val.Name == 'C' ) alert('found');
});

Demo

answered Nov 03 '12 at 08:50

Sibu

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Asad Saeeduddin · Answer 3 · 2012-11-03T08:54:04.113

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You could try:

objectArray.indexOf({ "Name" : "C", "Id" : "3" });

A better approach would be to simply iterate over the array, but if you must use indexOf, this is how you would do it.

The iteration approach would look like:

var inArray = false;
for(var i=0;i<objectArray.length;i++){
    if(objectArray[i]["Name"] == "C"){
        inArray = true;
    }
}

edited Nov 03 '12 at 08:54

answered Nov 03 '12 at 08:48

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '12 at 09:10

Well, if the object is not too big, you can consider iterate and match to find if the particular object exist like below:

//The Object
var objectArray = [
     { "Name" : "A", "Id" : "1" },
     { "Name" : "B", "Id" : "2" },
     { "Name" : "C", "Id" : "3" },
     { "Name" : "D", "Id" : "4" }
];


//Function to check if object exist with the given properties
function checkIfObjectExist(name,id)
{
for(var i=0;i<objectArray.length;i++)
 {
  if(objectArray[i].Name===name && objectArray[i].Id===id)
   {     
      return true;
   }
 }    
}

// Test if function is working
console.log(checkIfObjectExist("B","2"));

How to find whether object exist in array or not javascript

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