Appending to an object

Question

I have an object that holds alerts and some information about them:

var alerts = { 
    1: { app: \'helloworld\', message: \'message\' },
    2: { app: \'hel         


        

Answer 1

[Javascript] After a bit of jiggery pokery, this worked for me:

 let dateEvents = (
            {
                'Count': 2,
                'Items': [
                    {
                        'LastPostedDateTime': {
                            "S": "10/16/2019 11:04:59"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        'LastPostedDateTime': {
                            "S": "10/30/2019 21:41:39"
                        }
                    }
                ],
            }
        );
        console.log('dateEvents', dateEvents);

The problem I needed to solve was that I might have any number of events and they would all have the same name: LastPostedDateTime all that is different is the date and time.

Answer 2

jQuery $.extend(obj1, obj2) would merge 2 objects for you, but you should really be using an array.

var alertsObj = {
    1: {app:'helloworld','message'},
    2: {app:'helloagain',message:'another message'}
};

var alertArr = [
    {app:'helloworld','message'},
    {app:'helloagain',message:'another message'}
];

var newAlert = {app:'new',message:'message'};

$.extend(alertsObj, newAlert);
alertArr.push(newAlert);

Answer 3

How about storing the alerts as records in an array instead of properties of a single object ?

var alerts = [ 
    {num : 1, app:'helloworld',message:'message'},
    {num : 2, app:'helloagain',message:'another message'} 
]

And then to add one, just use push:

alerts.push({num : 3, app:'helloagain_again',message:'yet another message'});

Answer 4

Now with ES6 we have a very powerful spread operator (...Object) which can make this job very easy. It can be done as follows:

let alerts = { 
   1: { app: 'helloworld', message: 'message' },
   2: { app: 'helloagain', message: 'another message' }
} 

//now suppose you want to add another key called alertNo. with value 2 in the alerts object. 

alerts = {
   ...alerts,
   alertNo: 2
 }

Thats it. It will add the key you want. Hope this helps!!

Answer 5

You should really go with the array of alerts suggestions, but otherwise adding to the object you mentioned would look like this:

alerts[3]={"app":"goodbyeworld","message":"cya"};

But since you shouldn't use literal numbers as names quote everything and go with

alerts['3']={"app":"goodbyeworld","message":"cya"};

or you can make it an array of objects.

Accessing it looks like

alerts['1'].app
=> "helloworld"

Answer 6

Do you have the ability to change the outer-most structure to an array? So it would look like this

var alerts = [{"app":"helloworld","message":null},{"app":"helloagain","message":"another message"}];

So when you needed to add one, you can just push it onto the array

alerts.push( {"app":"goodbyeworld","message":"cya"} );

Then you have a built-in zero-based index for how the errors are enumerated.