(_.merge in ES6/ES7)Object.assign without overriding undefined values
You can't achieve that with a straight usage of Object.assign
, because each next object will rewrite the same keys for prev merge. The only way, to filter your incoming objects with some hand-crafted function.
function filterObject(obj) {
const ret = {};
Object.keys(obj)
.filter((key) => obj[key] !== undefined)
.forEach((key) => ret[key] = obj[key]);
return ret;
}
You can simply filter out the keys with undefined
values before passing them to Object.assign()
:
const assign = (target, ...sources) =>
Object.assign(target, ...sources.map(x =>
Object.entries(x)
.filter(([key, value]) => value !== undefined)
.reduce((obj, [key, value]) => (obj[key] = value, obj), {})
))
console.log(assign({}, {key: 2}, {key: undefined}))
Write a little utility to remove undefined values:
function removeUndefined(obj) {
for (let k in obj) if (obj[k] === undefined) delete obj[k];
return obj;
}
Then
Object.assign({}, {key: 2}, removeUndefined({key: undefined}))
This seems preferable to writing your own assign
with wired-in behavior to remove undefined values.