Question

I have the next JSON:

var JSONObject = {"animals": [{name:"cat"}, {name:"dog"}]};

What is the best way to know if the “dog” value exists in the JSON object?

Thanks.

Solution 1

var JSONObject = {"animals": [{name:"cat"}, {name:"dog"}]};
...
for (i=0; i < JSONObject.animals.length; i++) {
    if (JSONObject.animals[i].name == "dog")
        return true;
}
return false;

Solution 2 (JQuery)

var JSONObject = {"animals": [{name:"cat"}, {name:"dog"}]};
...
$.map(JSONObject.animals, function(elem, index) {
 if (elem.name == "dog") 
     return true;
});
return false;

Solution 3 (using some() method)

function _isContains(json, value) {
    let contains = false;
    Object.keys(json).some(key => {
        contains = typeof json[key] === 'object' ? 
        _isContains(json[key], value) : json[key] === value;
        return contains;
    });
    return contains;
}

Answer 1

var JSON = [{"name":"cat"}, {"name":"dog"}];

The JSON variable refers to an array of object with one property called “name”.
I don’t know of the best way but this is what I do?

var hasMatch =false;

for (var index = 0; index < JSON.length; ++index) {

 var animal = JSON[index];

 if(animal.Name == "dog"){
   hasMatch = true;
   break;
 }
}