Deep Merge using Lodash

Question

I have two arrays of objects that contain addresses that have a label and an object for the actual address:

var originalAddresses = [
  {
    label: 'home',
    address: { city: 'London', zipCode: '12345' }
  },
  {
    label: 'work',
    address: { city: 'New York', zipCode: '54321' }
  }
];

var updatedAddresses = [
  {
    label: 'home',
    address: { city: 'London (Central)', country: 'UK' }
  },
  {
    label: 'spain',
    address: { city: 'Madrid', zipCode: '55555' }
  }
];

Now I want to merge these arrays by label and compare the individual properties of the addresses and merge only the properties from the new address that are actually present. So the result should look like this:

var result = [
  {
    label: 'home',
    address: { city: 'London (Central)', zipCode: '12345', country: 'UK' }
  },
  {
    label: 'work',
    address: { city: 'New York', zipCode: '54321' }
  },
  {
    label: 'spain',
    address: { city: 'Madrid', zipCode: '55555' }
  }
]

How can I do this using lodash? I tried a combination of unionBy() and merge(). With unionBy() I was able to compare and join the arrays by label, but this always replaces the whole object. I can sure merge the addresses but this doesn't happen by label then.

Safari

Answer 1

You can turn both arrays into objects using _.keyBy(arr, 'label'), and then merge deep using _.merge():

var originalAddresses = [{
  label: 'home',
  address: {
    city: 'London',
    zipCode: '12345'
  }
}, {
  label: 'work',
  address: {
    city: 'New York',
    zipCode: '54321'
  }
}];

var updatedAddresses = [{
  label: 'home',
  address: {
    city: 'London (Central)',
    country: 'UK'
  }
}, {
  label: 'spain',
  address: {
    city: 'Madrid',
    zipCode: '55555'
  }
}];

var result = _.values(_.merge(
  _.keyBy(originalAddresses, 'label'),
  _.keyBy(updatedAddresses, 'label')
));

console.log(result);

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Bombycid

Answer 2

I try to use VanillaJS to handle this.

const originalAddresses = [{
    label: 'home',
    address: {
        city: 'London',
        zipCode: '12345'
    }
}, {
    label: 'work',
    address: {
        city: 'New York',
        zipCode: '54321'
    }
}];

const updatedAddresses = [{
    label: 'home',
    address: {
        city: 'London (Central)',
        country: 'UK'
    }
}, {
    label: 'spain',
    address: {
        city: 'Madrid',
        zipCode: '55555'
    }
}];


const groupBy = (array, property) => {
    return array.reduce((acc, cur) => {
            let key = cur[property]
            if (!acc[key]) {
                acc[key] = []
            }
            acc[key].push(cur)

            return acc
        }
        , {})
}

const groupByLabel = groupBy([...originalAddresses, ...updatedAddresses], 'label')

const result  = Object.keys(groupByLabel).map((key) => {
        return {
            label: groupByLabel[key][0].label,
            address: groupByLabel[key].reduce((acc, cur) => {
                    return Object.assign(acc, cur.address)
                }
                , {})
        }
    }
)
console.log(result)

Dichasium

groupBy is generic and can accept any inputs, but result is not. It is tied to this data constellation. Would advise make it, so it accepts any input for final method – Latonia

Answer 3

Use defaultsDeep:

console.log(_.defaultsDeep(
  {
    'x': { 'y': 20 }
  },
  {
    'x': { 'y': 10, 'z': 30 }
  }
));

Output:

{ 'x': { 'y': 20, 'z': 30 } }

Edholm

fails if they are arrays. – Annamaeannamaria