javascript - How to convert JS Object to Array

Question

I need to convert a hash map

{ 
    "fruit" : ["mango","orange"],
    "veg"   : ["carrot"]
} 

to

[ 
  { "type" : "fruit" , "name" : ["mango","orange"] } ,
  { "type" : "veg" ,   "name" : ["carrot"] } 
]

how do I do that??

Answer 1

You can do it like this (in a working snippet):

var input = { 
    "fruit" : ["mango","orange"],
    "veg"   : ["carrot"]
} 

var output = [], item;

for (var type in input) {
    item = {};
    item.type = type;
    item.name = input[type];
    output.push(item);
}

// display result
document.write(JSON.stringify(output));