What's the correct way to merge two arrays in Javascript?
I've got two arrays (for example):
var a1 = [{ id : 1, name : "test"}, { id : 2, name : "test2"}]
var a2 = [{ id : 1, count : "1"}, {id : 2, count : "2"}]
I want to be able to end up with something like:
var a3 = [{ id : 1, name : "test", count : "1"},
{ id : 2, name : "test2", count : "2"}]
Where the two arrays are being joined based on the 'id' field and extra data is simply being added.
I tried to use _.union to do this, but it simply overwrites the values from the second array into the first one
This should do the trick:
var mergedList = _.map(a1, function(item){
return _.extend(item, _.findWhere(a2, { id: item.id }));
});
This assumes that the id of the second object in a1 should be 2 rather than "2"