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Why won't my JavaScript account system code work or run? [duplicate]

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How do I check if an array includes a value in JavaScript?
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Is there an easier way to determine if a variable is equal to a range of values, such as:
if x === 5 || 6
rather than something obtuse like:
if x === 5 || x === 6
?

You can stash your values inside an array and check whether the variable exists in the array by using [].indexOf:
if([5, 6].indexOf(x) > -1) {
// ...
}
If -1 is returned then the variable doesn't exist in the array.

Depends on what sort of test you're performing. If you've got static strings, this is very easy to check via regular expressions:
if (/^[56ab]$/.test(item)) {
//-or-
if (/^(foo|bar|baz|fizz|buzz)$/.test(item)) {
doStuff();
} else {
doOtherStuff();
}
If you've got a small set of values (string or number), you can use a switch:
switch (item) {
case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
doStuff();
break;
default:
doOtherStuff();
break;
}
If you've got a long list of values, you should probably use an array with ~arr.indexOf(item), or arr.contains(item):
vals = [1,3,18,3902,...];
if (~vals.indexOf(item)) {
doStuff();
} else {
doOtherStuff();
}
Unfortunately Array.prototype.indexOf isn't supported in some browsers. Fortunately a polyfill is available. If you're going through the trouble of polyfilling Array.prototype.indexOf, you might as well add Array.prototype.contains.
Depending on how you're associating data, you could store a dynamic list of strings within an object as a map to other relevant information:
var map = {
foo: bar,
fizz: buzz
}
if (item in map) {
//-or-
if (map.hasOwnProperty(item)) {
doStuff(map[item]);
} else {
doOtherStuff();
}
in will check the entire prototype chain while Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty will only check the object, so be aware that they are different.

It's perfectly fine. If you have a longer list of values, perhaps you can use the following instead:
if ([5,6,7,8].indexOf(x) > -1) {
}

Yes. You can use your own function. This example uses .some:
var foo = [ 5, 6 ].some(function(val) {
return val === x;
});
foo; // true

This is what I've decided to use:
Object.prototype.isin = function() {
for(var i = arguments.length; i--;) {
var a = arguments[i];
if(a.constructor === Array) {
for(var j = a.length; j--;)
if(a[j] == this) return true;
}
else if(a == this) return true;
}
return false;
}
You would use it like this:
var fav = 'pear',
fruit = ['apple', 'banana', 'orange', 'pear'],
plu = [4152, 4231, 3030, 4409];
if (fav.isin(fruit, plu, 'eggs', 'cheese')) {
//do something cool
}
The advantages are:
it works in IE < 9;
it reads naturally from left to right;
you can feed it arrays or separate values.
If you don't want to allow type coercion (indexOf does not), change the two == to ===. As it stands:
fav = "4231";
plu.indexOf(fav) //-1
fav.isin(plu) //true

no, there might be a few tricks that are case specific but in general i write code like this:
if (someVariable === 1 ||
someVariable === 2 ||
someVariable === 7 ||
someVariable === 12 ||
someVariable === 14 ||
someVariable === 19) {
doStuff();
moreStuff();
} else {
differentStuff();
}

The simple answer is no. You can use a switch statement, which is easier to read if you are comparing a lot of string values, but using it for two values wouldn't look any better.

[Edit] this seems to work, but as Dan pointed out, it is actually a false positive. Do not use this method. I leave it here for educational purposes.
Easiest way I know :
a = [1,2,3,4,5];
if(3 in a) alert("true"); // will alert true
Tested in Chrome console. Not sure if it works in other browsers.

How to detect that a multi-level object has an undefined or null property? [duplicate]

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Test for existence of nested JavaScript object key
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In many places in my code, I have checks similar to the one below. It's very verbose, and ugly. Is there is better way? FYI, I'm using Lodash in all my projects, so I have access to that powerful library.
if (myAssessments[orderId].report &&
myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode] &&
myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories &&
myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories[comment.categoryId]) {
// Do something related to
// myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories[comment.categoryId]
}

Since you use lodash, you might use the has method:
_.has(obj,[orderId, 'report', categoryProductCode, 'categories', comment.categoryId])
https://lodash.com/docs/4.16.6#has
Or the get method to get the value of the object path: https://lodash.com/docs/4.16.6#get

Not elegant way but you can wrap in try catch
var result;
try{
result = myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories[comment.categoryId]
}catch{}
if (result){
// do it
}

Use the built-in isset function:
if (isset(myAssessments[orderId].report) &&
isset(myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode]) &&
isset(myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories) &&
isset(myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories[comment.categoryId)]) {

You could use an array with all properties to check and iterate until all properties have been checked.
function checkProperties(object, keys) {
return keys.every(function (key) {
if (key in object) {
object = object[key];
return true;
}
});
}
// usage
if (checkProperties(myAssessments, [orderId, 'report', categoryProductCode, 'categories', comment.categoryId])) {
// Do something related to
// myAssessments[orderId].report[categoryProductCode].categories[comment.categoryId]
}

I have this genric function
function chckForKeyPresence(data, arr, checkLength){
var currData = data;
for(var i=0; i<arr.length; i++){
if(!currData.hasOwnProperty(arr[i]))
return false;
currData = currData[arr[i]];
}
if(checkLength)
if(currData.length==0)
return false;
return true;
}
Here 1st argument is the main data, 2nd argument is the array of properties you need to check and the third argument will check the length of the last element that it is 0 or not, it will check only if the third argument is true.
You can use it like:
if(!chckForKeyPresence(data, ["results", "tweets"], true)){
// error
return;
}

Node.js : check if a property is absent from object

I’m checking if a property 'lessons' (not inherited) is not present in obj,
All these give me true
(typeof obj['lessons'] == undefined)
(!(obj.hasOwnProperty('lessons')))
(!(hasOwnProperty.call(obj,'lessons')))
(!(_.has(obj, 'lessons')))
(!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, 'lessons’))
but the property is present in the object, when i print keys by using (key in obj). I don't want to use it as it's very slow and my object is huge.
I found this on stackoverflow, but I don't understand what it's trying to do or how to use it with node.js.
I'd also like to know how are the mentioned ways of using hasOwnProperty are different.
EDIT
adding code
My code is:
console.log("LS:",JSON.stringify(obj)) ;
if (typeof obj['lessons'] == undefined)
console.log('typeof undefined');
else {console.log('typeof not undefined');}
if (!(obj.hasOwnProperty('lessons')))
console.log('hasOwnProperty: false');
else {console.log('hasOwnProperty not undefined');}
if (!(hasOwnProperty.call(obj,'lessons')))
console.log('hasOwnProperty.call');
else {console.log('hasOwnProperty.call not undefined');}
if (!(_.has(obj, 'lessons')))
console.log('_.hash');
else {console.log('_has not undefined');}
if (!(_.has(obj, 'lessons')))
{obj['lessons'] = {"levels": []};}
else
{console.log("has lesson level ");}
console.log("Lesson ", JSON.stringify(obj.lessons));
And the output I'm getting is:
LS: {"_id":"N9zmznzAWx","time":"1970-01-01T00:33:36.000Z","lessons":{"levels":["abc"]}}
typeof not undefined
hasOwnProperty: false
hasOwnProperty.call
_.hash
Lesson {"levels":[]}
Same case with all others..
SOLUTION
It works when I use JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj)) instead of obj.

Your checks aren't working because Mongoose document objects don't use simple object properties to expose their fields.
Instead, you can use the Document#get method to do this (with your obj renamed to doc):
var isMissing = (doc.get('lessons') === undefined);
Or you can create a plain JS object from your document by calling toObject() on it, and then use hasOwnProperty on that:
var obj = doc.toObject();
var isMissing = !obj.hasOwnProperty('lessons');

Here is a function that I wrote as an example to test three ways you have listed in your question:
function check(obj) {
if (!obj.hasOwnProperty("lessons")) {
console.log('nope');
}
if (!_.has(obj, 'lessons')) {
console.log('nope');
}
if (!obj.lessons) {
console.log('nope');
}
}
Here is JSBIN that runs the function on two objects, one with 'lessons' and one without:
Example JsBIN

typeof returns a string
var obj = {};
console.log(typeof (typeof obj.lessons));
https://jsfiddle.net/0ar2ku7v/
So you must compare it as such:
if (typeof obj.lessons === 'undefined')
console.log('nope');

JSON object != JavaScript object? [duplicate]

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Object comparison in JavaScript [duplicate]
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For convenience I wrote a simple toJSON prototype, for handling JSON that I know to be safe:
String.prototype.toJSON = function () {
return JSON.parse(this.valueOf());
};
I am using it in testing my web-services. Unfortunately even with this simple test:
var v0 = '{"echo":"hello_world"}'.toJSON(), v1 = {"echo": "hello_world"};
It fails:
console.log(v0 == v1); // false
console.log(v0 === v1); // false
console.log(v0.echo == v1.echo); // true
console.log(v0.echo === v1.echo); // true
What do I not know about JavaScript which is causing this issue?

Just because you have the same content, that does not mean that you have the same object instance.
If you had done v1 = v0 instead of initializing v1 seperatly the first two would have returned true.
Update: If you need to compare the two instances to find if they have equal content then you need to define a function which compares each member.

An object in JavaScript, just like everything else except primitives(int, string, Boolean) is a reference.
Having 2 different duplicate objects, means having 2 different references that point to different places within the hype.
You can implement something as simple as that, to basically iterate over all of the primitive properties of an object, and compare them one by one:
Object.prototype.equals = function(x)
{
for(p in this)
{
switch(typeof(this[p]))
{
case 'object':
if (!this[p].equals(x[p])) { return false }; break;
case 'function':
if (typeof(x[p])=='undefined' || (p != 'equals' && this[p].toString() != x[p].toString())) { return false; }; break;
default:
if (this[p] != x[p]) { return false; }
}
}
for(p in x)
{
if(typeof(this[p])=='undefined') {return false;}
}
return true;
}

For two objects to be == they must be the same instance. v0 and v1 are two different instances. If you want to do a deep comparison of objects you can use something like underscore's isEqual method: http://underscorejs.org/#isEqual
_.isEqual(v0, v1);

is there something like isset of php in javascript/jQuery? [duplicate]

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Is there something in javascript/jQuery to check whether variable is set/available or not? In php, we use isset($variable) to check something like this.
thanks.

Try this expression:
typeof(variable) != "undefined" && variable !== null
This will be true if the variable is defined and not null, which is the equivalent of how PHP's isset works.
You can use it like this:
if(typeof(variable) != "undefined" && variable !== null) {
bla();
}

JavaScript isset() on PHP JS
function isset () {
// discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/isset
// + original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
// + improved by: FremyCompany
// + improved by: Onno Marsman
// + improved by: Rafał Kukawski
// * example 1: isset( undefined, true);
// * returns 1: false
// * example 2: isset( 'Kevin van Zonneveld' );
// * returns 2: true
var a = arguments,
l = a.length,
i = 0,
undef;
if (l === 0) {
throw new Error('Empty isset');
}
while (i !== l) {
if (a[i] === undef || a[i] === null) {
return false;
}
i++;
}
return true;
}

typeof will serve the purpose I think
if(typeof foo != "undefined"){}

If you want to check if a property exists: hasOwnProperty is the way to go
And since most objects are properties of some other object (eventually leading to the window object) this can work well for checking if values have been declared.

Some parts of each of these answers work. I compiled them all down into a function "isset" just like the question was asking and works like it does in PHP.
// isset helper function
var isset = function(variable){
return typeof(variable) !== "undefined" && variable !== null && variable !== '';
}
Here is a usage example of how to use it:
var example = 'this is an example';
if(isset(example)){
console.log('the example variable has a value set');
}
It depends on the situation you need it for but let me break down what each part does:
typeof(variable) !== "undefined" checks if the variable is defined at all
variable !== null checks if the variable is null (some people explicitly set null and don't think if it is set to null that that is correct, in that case, remove this part)
variable !== '' checks if the variable is set to an empty string, you can remove this if an empty string counts as set for your use case
Hope this helps someone :)

Not naturally, no... However, a googling of the thing gave this: http://phpjs.org/functions/isset:454

http://phpjs.org/functions/isset:454
phpjs project is a trusted source. Lots of js equivalent php functions available there. I have been using since a long time and found no issues so far.

The problem is that passing an undefined variable to a function causes an error.
This means you have to run typeof before passing it as an argument.
The cleanest way I found to do this is like so:
function isset(v){
if(v === 'undefined'){
return false;
}
return true;
}
Usage:
if(isset(typeof(varname))){
alert('is set');
} else {
alert('not set');
}
Now the code is much more compact and readable.
This will still give an error if you try to call a variable from a non instantiated variable like:
isset(typeof(undefVar.subkey))
thus before trying to run this you need to make sure the object is defined:
undefVar = isset(typeof(undefVar))?undefVar:{};

Here :)
function isSet(iVal){
return (iVal!=="" && iVal!=null && iVal!==undefined && typeof(iVal) != "undefined") ? 1 : 0;
} // Returns 1 if set, 0 false

in addition to #emil-vikström's answer, checking for variable!=null would be true for variable!==null as well as for variable!==undefined (or typeof(variable)!="undefined").

You can just:
if(variable||variable===0){
//Yes it is set
//do something
}
else {
//No it is not set
//Or its null
//do something else
}