2 replies to this topic

[ShadowMage]

I have some JSON that will either return a fully populated object:
{a: 0, b: 1, c: 2}
or an empty array:
[]

What I'd like to know is, what is the easiest way to distinguish between the two? I know I could do something like:

if (obj.a) {

or

if (obj.length !== undefined) {

but these have drawbacks such that:
- if the array object happens to have property a, the first if will fail
- if the object happens to have a length property, the second one will fail

I don't anticipate either of those situations ever happening in this situation because all of the properties are hand written, not dynamically generated. However, I want to know for future reference if there is a better way.

Thanks.

[thescientist]

http://stackoverflow...ash-or-an-array

seems like an option.

Edited by thescientist, 29 March 2012 - 05:40 PM.

[ShadowMage]

Yeah! I never thought of constructor and didn't even know instanceof existed. I use typeof quite often but that won't work in this situation since arrays are objects. The constructor property and instanceof both work very well.

Thanks for the link!