Dominic MyersI needed to order an array of objects in an arbitrary fashion, using strings which make sense to the business but aren't necessarily orderable otherwise. Unfortunately, I had to support IE11, so couldn't do fancy JS. Thankfully I had access to lodash. Anyway, I came up with this:
var statuses = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var complexObj = {
dataset: [
{
label: "two"
},{
label: "four"
},{
label: "three"
},{
label: "one"
},
]
};
console.table(complexObj.dataset);
complexObj.dataset = _.sortBy(complexObj.dataset, function(n) {
return _.indexOf(statuses, n.label);
});
console.table(complexObj.dataset)
Which worked a treat, once I'd clocked I need to return the sorted array rather than merely sort it.
