Trying to get a unique list of objects

Question

I have a collection of objects

var array = 
[
    {"category":"A", "categoryname":"somename", key: 1, description: "something"}, 
    {"category":"A", "categoryname":"somename", key: 1, description: "something"}, 
    {"category":"B", "categoryname": "somename", key: 1, description: "something"}
    {"category":"B", "categoryname": "somename", key: 3, description: "something"}
    {"category":"C", "categoryname": "somename", key: 2, description: "something"}
    {"category":"C", "categoryname": "somename", key: 2, description: "something"}
]

that have 4 values (category, categoryname, key, description) and I need to loop through it and get a unique list of objects based on the category. But I want to return the unique list with 2 preoperties and not just one. If I use

_.uniq(_.pluck(array,"category"))

this gives me what I want except I need the categoryname as well as the category. Is this possible?

What is expected result? – guest271314 Oct 10 '16 at 23:35 — guest271314, Oct 10 '16 at 23:35
[ ["A", "somename"],["B","somename"],["C","somename"] ] – chuckd Oct 10 '16 at 23:41 — chuckd, Oct 10 '16 at 23:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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There are a couple of questions on the same use case already.

Plucking Multiple Properties

Removing duplicate objects with Underscore for Javascript

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Oct 10 '16 at 23:45

Sreekanth

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '16 at 23:49

You can use $.unique(), Array.prototype.map(), JSON.stringify(), JSON.parse()

var array = [{
  "category": "A",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 1,
  description: "something"
}, {
  "category": "A",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 1,
  description: "something"
}, {
  "category": "B",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 1,
  description: "something"
}, {
  "category": "B",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 3,
  description: "something"
}, {
  "category": "C",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 2,
  description: "something"
}, {
  "category": "C",
  "categoryname": "somename",
  key: 2,
  description: "something"
}];

var res = $.unique(array.map(function(el) {
  return JSON.stringify([el.category, el.categoryname])
})).map(JSON.parse);

console.log(res);

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Trying to get a unique list of objects

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