Lodash/Underscore : Check for a value within an array, in an array of objects

Question

Confusing title, the only simple way to explain is to show you what I'm after :

var user = [
  {foo:"test",bar:1},
  {foo:"test2",bar:2}
];

var items = [{foo:"test",bar:1},{foo:"test4",bar:4},{foo:"test5",bar:5}]

What I want, is to pick one item from items which is not already in user , and add it to user . In this case the user object would end up looking like :

user = [
  {foo:"test",bar:1},
  {foo:"test2",bar:2},
  {foo:"test4",bar:4}
];

I've tried all sorts of _.filter, _.contains, etc... combinations, but can't quite figure it out. Any help would be very appreciated!

Answer 1

The logic is as follows: you want to find the first item that is not contained within the user array.

So you can do the following:

var item = _.find(items, function (item) {
    return !_.findWhere(user, item);
});

jsFiddle Demo