JS (ES6): Filter array based on nested array attributes

Question

I have an array, which looks like this:

const persons = [
  {
    name: \"Joe\",
    animals: [
      {species: \"dog\", name: \"Bolt\"},
      {species: \"c         


        

Answer 1

Your inner filter still returns a "truthy" value (empty array) for the dog person. Add .length so that no results becomes 0 ("falsey")

const result = persons.filter(p => p.animals.filter(s => s.species === 'cat').length)

Edit: Per comments and several other answers, since the goal is to get a truthy value from the inner loop, .some would get the job done even better because it directly returns true if any items match.

const result = persons.filter(p => p.animals.some(s => s.species === 'cat'))

Answer 2

You havent checked against the length of the second filter.

Filer only includes results that return a true value. So we need to provide the second filter with a way of returning true if it finds something. We can do that by saying, if the returned array is > 0

const persons = [
  {
    name: "Joe",
    animals: [
      {species: "dog", name: "Bolt"},
      {species: "cat", name: "Billy"},
    ]
  },
  {
    name: "Bob",
    animals: [
      {species: "dog", name: "Snoopy"}
    ]
  }
];

const filtered = persons.filter(p => p.animals.filter(a => a.species === "cat").length > 0)

console.log(filtered)

Answer 3

You might want to use some'

 persons.filter(p => p.animals.some(s => s.species === 'cat'))

Answer 4

This should work!

const result = persons.filter(person => {
   let innerResult = person.animals.filter(animal => {
      return animal.species === 'cat';
   });

  return innerResult.length > 0;
});

Answer 5

You can use filter() with some() method to check if some of the objects in animals array has species == cat.

const persons = [{"name":"Joe","animals":[{"species":"dog","name":"Bolt"},{"species":"cat","name":"Billy"}]},{"name":"Bob","animals":[{"species":"dog","name":"Snoopy"}]}]

const result = persons.filter(({animals}) => {
  return animals.some(({species}) => species == 'cat')
})

console.log(result)

Answer 6

const persons = [
  {
    name: "Joe",
    animals: [
      {species: "dog", name: "Bolt"},
      {species: "cat", name: "Billy"},
    ]
  },
  {
    name: "Bob",
    animals: [
      {species: "dog", name: "Snoopy"}
    ]
  }
];

Filter = function(arr, a){
  return arr.filter(t=>t.animals.filter(y=>y.species==a).length>0);
}

console.log(Filter(persons, 'cat'))