Lodash union of arrays of objects

Question

I'd like to use the _.union function to create a union of two arrays of objects. Union works with arrays of primitives only as it uses === to examine if two values are equal.

I'd like to compare objects using a key property: objects with the same key property would be regarded equal. Is there a nice functional way to achieve that ideally using lodash?

Answer 1

A non pure lodash way to do this but using the array.concat function you are able to do this pretty simply along uniq() :

var objUnion = function(array1, array2, matcher) {
  var concated = array1.concat(array2)
  return _.uniq(concated, false, matcher);
}

An alternative approach would be to use flatten() and uniq() :

var union = _.uniq(_.flatten([array1, array2]), matcherFn);

Answer 2

And what about UniqBy with a concat of the two arrays before?

import _ from 'lodash'

const arrayUnion = (arr1, arr2, identifier) => {
  const array = [...arr1, ...arr2]

  return _.uniqBy(array, identifier)  
 }


const array1 = [{ id: 1 }, { id: 2 }, { id: 3 }]
const array2 = [{ id: 3 }, { id: 4 }, { id: 4 }]

console.log(arrayUnion(array1, array2, 'id'))

result → [{ 'id': 1 }, { 'id': 2 }, { 'id': 3 }, { 'id': 4 }]

Answer 3

Late to the party but _.unionWith is much better in doing what you want.

var objects = [{ 'x': 1, 'y': 2 }, { 'x': 2, 'y': 1 }];
var others = [{ 'x': 1, 'y': 1 }, { 'x': 1, 'y': 2 }];

_.unionWith(objects, others, _.isEqual);
// => [{ 'x': 1, 'y': 2 }, { 'x': 2, 'y': 1 }, { 'x': 1, 'y': 1 }]

Answer 4

_.unionBy(array1, array2, matcherFn);

Answer 5

lodash merge object from arrays

 const test1 = [ { name: 'zhanghong', age: 32, money: 0, size: 12, }, { name: 'wanghong', age: 20, size: 6 }, { name: 'jinhong', age: 16, height: 172 }, ] const test2 = [ { name: 'zhanghong', gender: 'male', age: 14 }, { name: 'wanghong', gender: 'female', age: 33 }, { name: 'lihong', gender: 'female', age: 33 }, ] const test3 = [ { name: 'meinv' }, ] const test4 = [ { name: 'aaa' }, ] const test5 = [ { name: 'zhanghong', age: 'wtf' }, ] const result = mergeUnionByKey(test1, test2, test3, test4, [], test5, 'name', 'override') function mergeUnionByKey(...args) { const config = _.chain(args) .filter(_.isString) .value() const key = _.get(config, '[0]') const strategy = _.get(config, '[1]') === 'override' ? _.merge : _.defaultsDeep if (!_.isString(key)) throw new Error('missing key') const datasets = _.chain(args) .reject(_.isEmpty) .filter(_.isArray) .value() const datasetsIndex = _.mapValues(datasets, dataset => _.keyBy(dataset, key)) const uniqKeys = _.chain(datasets) .flatten() .map(key) .uniq() .value() return _.chain(uniqKeys) .map(val => { const data = {} _.each(datasetsIndex, dataset => strategy(data, dataset[val])) return data }) .filter(key) .value() } console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 4))

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Answer 6

1. Compare objects using a key property:-

_.unionBy(array1,array2,'propname');

2. Compare objects using all key property:-

_.unionWith(array1,array2, _.isEqual);

3. Compare objects using a string key property in case insensitive way:-

_.unionWith(array1,array2, function(obj,other){ return obj.propname.toLowercase() === other.propname.toLowercase(); });

propname is name of key property of your object.