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Discussion on: How To Create A Global "JSON Search Algorithm" In JavaScript.

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haidarknightfury profile image
Haidar

What if you have nested objects?

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Lucius Emmanuel Emmaccen

Good question, in that case, another search would have to be implemented on the nested object, something like: topLevelData.nestedObject and this would pass for our search array.
Hope I've answered your question Haidar?

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Haidar

Yes but not really scalable. What if you have more than 3 level of nesting. I think you could improve your function a bit

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John Kazer

There's a library called fusejs that flattens out objects with nested arrays. It checks the type of each value and if array recurses. All in order to create one big flat object you can search in.

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Lucius Emmanuel Emmaccen

Thanks for sharing John.

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John Kazer

You might find fusejs interesting as a search library - the "flattening" process is part of how it searches rather than main function.

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Ian Wijma

You do object.values on the json items. Then do stringify on the item values. Than call includes on that string.

Not sure about performance though.