How can I check if a JSON is empty in NodeJS?

Question

I have a function that checks to see whether or not a request has any queries, and does different actions based off that. Currently, I have if(query) do this else something else. However, it seems that when there is no query data, I end up with a {} JSON object. As such, I need to replace if(query) with if(query.isEmpty()) or something of that sort. Can anybody explain how I could go about doing this in NodeJS? Does the V8 JSON object have any functionality of this sort?

Answer 1

You can use either of these functions:

// This should work in node.js and other ES5 compliant implementations.
function isEmptyObject(obj) {
  return !Object.keys(obj).length;
}

// This should work both there and elsewhere.
function isEmptyObject(obj) {
  for (var key in obj) {
    if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key)) {
      return false;
    }
  }
  return true;
}

Example usage:

if (isEmptyObject(query)) {
  // There are no queries.
} else {
  // There is at least one query,
  // or at least the query object is not empty.
}