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I have an array of JavaScript objects:

var people = [
{
    "name": "Edward",
    "age": 100,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 500
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 22100
    }
},
{
    "name": "Lisa",
    "age": 30,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 20
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 12340
    }
},
{
    "name": "Elisabeth",
    "age": 50,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 200
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 5000
    }
}
];

How can I sort them by wallet.cash ?

This following example (by Ege Özcan) works if I wanted to sort these objects by name, or age, but I have hard time modifying it to work with multidimensional key.

function dynamicSort(property) {
var sortOrder = 1;
if(property[0] === "-") {
    sortOrder = -1;
    property = property.substr(1);
}
return function (a,b) {
    var result = (a[property] < b[property]) ? -1 : (a[property] > b[property]) ? 1 : 0;
    return result * sortOrder;
}
}

This works:

people.sort(dynamicSort("name"));

This doesn't:

people.sort(dynamicSort("wallet.cash"));

Thank you in advance!

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3 Answers 3

up vote 0 down vote accepted

You can pass two different arguments to dynamicSort function

function dynamicSort(property1,property2) {
var sortOrder = 1;
if(property1[0] === "-") {
    sortOrder = -1;
    property1 = property1.substr(1);
}
return function (a,b) {
    var result = (a[property1][property2] < b[property1][property2]) ? -1 : (a[property1][property2] > b[property1][property2]) ? 1 : 0;
    return result * sortOrder;
}
}

And then call

dynamicSort("wallet","cash");

DEMO

var people = [
{
    "name": "Edward",
    "age": 100,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 500
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 22100
    }
},
{
    "name": "Lisa",
    "age": 30,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 20
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 12340
    }
},
{
    "name": "Elisabeth",
    "age": 50,
    "wallet": {
        "location": "home",
        "cash": 200
    },
    "bank": {
        "location": "bank street",
        "cash": 5000
    }
}
];

    function dynamicSort(property1,property2) {
    var sortOrder = 1;
    if(property1[0] === "-") {
        sortOrder = -1;
        property1 = property1.substr(1);
    }
    return function (a,b) {
        var result = (a[property1][property2] < b[property1][property2]) ? -1 : (a[property1][property2] > b[property1][property2]) ? 1 : 0;
        return result * sortOrder;
    }
    }

alert(JSON.stringify(people.sort(dynamicSort("wallet","cash"))))

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Thanks man! This was exactly what I was looking for. The first code part however is missing property -> property1 changes. – Beeq Jun 17 at 11:59
up vote 0 down vote

Lifting this comparison function from here, you can do:

function compare(a,b) {
  if (a.wallet.cash < b.wallet.cash)
    return -1;
  if (a.wallet.cash > b.wallet.cash)
    return 1;
  return 0;
}

var people = [...];
console.log(people.sort(compare));
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up vote 0 down vote

You can use Object.byString method from this stackoverflow answer and modify your code like this:

function dynamicSort(property) {
    var sortOrder = 1;
    if(property[0] === "-") {
        sortOrder = -1;
        property = property.substr(1);
    }
    return function (a,b) {
        var avalue = Object.byString(a, property);
        var bvalue = Object.byString(b, property);
        var result = (avalue < bvalue) ? -1 : (avalue > bvalue) ? 1 : 0;
        return result * sortOrder;
    }
}
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