Javascript - removing undefined fields from an object [duplicate]

Answer 1

A one-liner using ES6 arrow function and ternary operator:

Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => obj[key] === undefined ? delete obj[key] : {});

Or use short-circuit evaluation instead of ternary: (@Matt Langlois, thanks for the info!)

Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => obj[key] === undefined && delete obj[key])

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Same example using if expression:

Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {
  if (obj[key] === undefined) {
    delete obj[key];
  }
});

If you want to remove the items from nested objects as well, you can use a recursive function:

const removeEmpty = (obj) => {
  Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {
    if (obj[key] && typeof obj[key] === 'object') removeEmpty(obj[key]);
    else if (obj[key] === undefined) delete obj[key];
  });
  return obj;
};

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Answer 2

Another Javascript Solution

for(var i=0,keys = Object.keys(obj),len=keys.length;i<len;i++){ 
  if(typeof obj[keys[i]] === 'undefined'){
    delete obj[keys[i]];
  }
}

No additional hasOwnProperty check is required as Object.keys does not look up the prototype chain and returns only the properties of obj.

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Answer 3

This solution also avoids hasOwnProperty() as Object.keys returns an array of a given object's own enumerable properties.

Object.keys(obj).forEach(function (key) {
 if(typeof obj[key] === 'undefined'){
    delete obj[key];
  }
});

and you can add this as null or '' for stricter cleaning.

Answer 4

Here's a plain javascript (no library required) solution:

function removeUndefinedProps(obj) {
    for (var prop in obj) {
        if (obj.hasOwnProperty(prop) && obj[prop] === undefined) {
            delete obj[prop];
        }
    }
}

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/djj5g5fu/

Answer 5

var obj = { a: 1, b: undefined, c: 3 }

To remove undefined props in an object we use like this

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj));

Output: {a: 1, c: 3}

Answer 6

Mhh.. I think @Damian asks for remove undefined field (property) from an JS object. Then, I would simply do :

for (const i in myObj)  
   if (typeof myObj[i] === 'undefined')   
     delete myObj[i]; 

Short and efficient solution, in (vanilla) JS ! Example :

const myObj = {
  a: 1,
  b: undefined,
  c: null, 
  d: 'hello world'
};

for (const i in myObj)  
  if (typeof myObj[i] === 'undefined')   
    delete myObj[i]; 

console.log(myObj);