Swap key with value JSON

Question

I have an extremely large JSON object structured like this:

{A : 1, B : 2, C : 3, D : 4}

I need a function that can swap the values with

Answer 1

With pure Ramda in a pure and point-free style:

const swapKeysAndValues = R.pipe(
   R.toPairs,
   R.map(R.reverse),
   R.fromPairs,
);

Or, with a little more convoluted ES6 version, still pure functional:

const swapKeysAndValues2 = obj => Object
    .entries(obj)
    .reduce((newObj, [key, value]) => ({...newObj, [value]: key}), {})

Answer 2

function swap(json){
  var ret = {};
  for(var key in json){
    ret[json[key]] = key;
  }
  return ret;
}

Example here FIDDLE don't forget to turn on your console to see the results.

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ES6 versions:

static objectFlip(obj) {
  const ret = {};
  Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {
    ret[obj[key]] = key;
  });
  return ret;
}

Or using Array.reduce() & Object.keys()

static objectFlip(obj) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((ret, key) => {
    ret[obj[key]] = key;
    return ret;
  }, {});
}

Or using Array.reduce() & Object.entries()

static objectFlip(obj) {
  return Object.entries(obj).reduce((ret, entry) => {
    const [ key, value ] = entry;
    ret[ value ] = key;
    return ret;
  }, {});
}

Answer 3

Here is a pure functional implementation of flipping keys and values in ES6:

TypeScript

  const flipKeyValues = (originalObj: {[key: string]: string}): {[key: string]: string} => {
    if(typeof originalObj === "object" && originalObj !== null ) {
      return Object
      .entries(originalObj)
      .reduce((
        acc: {[key: string]: string}, 
        [key, value]: [string, string],
      ) => {
        acc[value] = key
        return acc;
      }, {})
    } else {
      return {};
    }
  }

JavaScript

const flipKeyValues = (originalObj) => {
    if(typeof originalObj === "object" && originalObj !== null ) {
        return Object
        .entries(originalObj)
        .reduce((acc, [key, value]) => {
          acc[value] = key
          return acc;
        }, {})
    } else {
        return {};
    }
}

const obj = {foo: 'bar'}
console.log("ORIGINAL: ", obj)
console.log("FLIPPED: ", flipKeyValues(obj))

Answer 4

Here is an option that will swap keys with values but not lose duplicates, if your object is : { a: 1, b: 2, c: 2}, it will always return an array in the output :

function swapMap(map) {
    const invertedMap = {};
    for (const key in map) {
        const value = map[key];
        invertedMap[value] = invertedMap[value] || [];
        invertedMap[value].push(key);
    }
    return invertedMap;
}
swapMap({a: "1", b: "2", c: "2"})
// Returns => {"1": ["a"], "2":["b", "c"]}

Answer 5

    var data = {A : 1, B : 2, C : 3, D : 4}
    var newData = {};
    Object.keys(data).forEach(function(key){newData[data[key]]=key});
    console.log(newData);

Answer 6

function swapKV(obj) {
  const entrySet = Object.entries(obj);
  const reversed = entrySet.map(([k, v])=>[v, k]);
  const result = Object.fromEntries(reversed);
  return result;
}

This can make your object, {A : 1, B : 2, C : 3, D : 4}, array-like, so you can have

const o = {A : 1, B : 2, C : 3, D : 4}
const arrayLike = swapKV(o);
arrayLike.length = 5;
const array = Array.from(arrayLike);
array.shift(); // undefined
array; // ["A", "B", "C", "D"]