How to find a property in a nested object

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to extract result based on an object property value that is inside another object e.g

{
   title: 'The Book',
   author: {
      name: 'Merlin Bridge',
      category: 'Fiction'
   }
}  

Here are my tests:

  // this works
  const test1 = _.find(existingBooks, {
    title: uploadedBooks[i].title,
  });

  // this doesn't work and returns nothing
  const test2 = _.find(existingBooks, {
    'author.name': uploadedBooks[i].author.name,
  });

I want to get the result wherein the author.name is the identifier. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

As you are using Lodash/Underscore find, I took the liberty to also use the get helper. Please find below an answer which should help you.

const books = [{
    title: 'The Book',
    author: {
      name: 'Merlin Bridge',
      category: 'Fiction'
    }
  },
  {
    title: 'Another Book',
    author: {
      name: 'Merlin Window',
      category: 'Science'
    }
  }
];
const uploadedBooks = [{
    title: 'Another Book',
    author: {
      name: 'Merlin Window',
      category: 'Science'
    }
  }];
const i = 0;
const foundBook = _.find(books, (book, index) => {
  return _.get(book, 'author.name') === _.get(uploadedBooks, [i, 'author', 'name'])
});
console.log(foundBook);

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