Reorder JSON with new key

Question

I have a large JSON returned from a rest service and I need to sort it before I can use it.

Example lines:

[{"Time":"1354233600000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0"},
{"Time":"1354234500000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.0020288255172466159"},
{"Time":"1354235400000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.0022446943714048121"},
{"Time":"1354236300000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.00014998416164500384"},
{"Time":"1354237200000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0"},
{"Time":"1354238100000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.00015631034628383933"},
{"Time":"1354239000000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"1.1165024734559951E-05"}

There are about 2000 lines like this. I would like to sort them by time and get something like this:

var restData = { "1354234500000":[
                                  {"Name":"NaN",
                                   "TagValue":"0",
                                   "TagValue2":"someFloat"}
                                   {"Name:"NAN,
                                    "TagValue":"0",
                                     "TagVale":"0"}
                                   ],
                   "aNewUnixTimeStamp":[
                                     {..........}
]};

Is there some magic javascript function that I can use to accomplish this?

Been asked and answered plenty of times, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129216/sorting-objects-in-an-array-by-a-field-value-in-javascript — gview, Dec 01 '12 at 02:48
Looks like you're trying to sort by the key: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5467129/sort-javascript-object-by-key — Eric Mason, Dec 01 '12 at 02:49
@gview this is not about ordering, this is more liking grouping objects by a property. — Farid Nouri Neshat, Dec 01 '12 at 02:54
This question isn't clear to me. Are you saying you just want to restructure the data? Or restructure and sort? Could you show a larger sample of the before and after to give a better idea? — I Hate Lazy, Dec 01 '12 at 02:55
Is this possible? to reorder by timeStamp and the rest as nested object? — baron aron, Dec 01 '12 at 03:01
Yes, but with `aNewUnixTimeStamp`, are we creating a new timestamp, or using the existing ones? And how does the sorting work? Is it a simple ascending order? — I Hate Lazy, Dec 01 '12 at 03:04
Yes using the timestamp in the rows as the key for the rest of the object there are about 96 different timestamp in the rest call. — baron aron, Dec 01 '12 at 03:07
And the sorting would be one timestamp has many objects - a one to many relation. — baron aron, Dec 01 '12 at 03:08
I see, so you need matching timestamps to have their objects grouped together. Right? — I Hate Lazy, Dec 01 '12 at 03:09
Yes, thank you, as you probably guessed English is not my native language :) But yes you nailed it, is that possible? — baron aron, Dec 01 '12 at 03:11
I posted an answer that should take care of it. Give it a try. — I Hate Lazy, Dec 01 '12 at 03:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '12 at 02:49

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Assuming your objects are all neatly organised in an array, you can just call

bigArray.sort(function(a,b) {return a.Time < b.Time ? -1 : 1})

answered Dec 01 '12 at 02:49

Niet the Dark Absol

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '12 at 03:14

var myarray = [{"Time":"1354233600000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0"},
{"Time":"1354234500000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.0020288255172466159"},
{"Time":"1354235400000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.0022446943714048121"},
{"Time":"1354236300000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.00014998416164500384"},
{"Time":"1354237200000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0"},
{"Time":"1354238100000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"0.00015631034628383933"},
{"Time":"1354239000000","Name":"NAN","TagValue":"0","TagValue2":"1.1165024734559951E-05"}

var result = myarray.reduce(function(res, obj) {
    if (res.hasOwnProperty(obj.Time) === false) {
        res[obj.Time] = [];
    }
    res[obj.Time].push(obj);
    delete obj.Time;
    return res;
}, {});

You should be aware that since the result is using the timestamps as keys of an object you won't be able to sort them since objects have no defined order.

Also .reduce() will need a shim for older browsers. You can use the one provided by MDN.

What is `delete obj.Time` for in this? Otherwise it's straightforward.... Nevermind. I see it. — Scott Sauyet, Dec 01 '12 at 04:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 01 '12 at 02:52

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you can also use this pligin from jquery

http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/sort

$(dataSet).sort("Time", "asc");

answered Dec 01 '12 at 02:52

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-1 because it would be lunacy to load a large DOM manipulation library *(and plugins)* just to do simple object manipulation. – I Hate Lazy Dec 01 '12 at 02:56
@user1689607 There are about 2000 lines of data hmmmm may be simple object manipulation but with huge data plus why not use something that there to do a job for you – COLD TOLD Dec 01 '12 at 02:58
Loading jQuery won't make any of those 2000 lines disappear. Using generalized abstractions just slows things down. – I Hate Lazy Dec 01 '12 at 03:00
why unless you write your own sorting you still use designed function do not see any point of what you want to prove – COLD TOLD Dec 01 '12 at 03:04
Code written for a specific task will generally outperform code written to handle a larger range of generalized tasks. Anyway the performance is secondary. It makes no sense to load a large DOM manipulation library just to do a simple sort. You wanted to know the reason for the vote, and I've explained it in detail. If you can't understand at this point, I can't help you. – I Hate Lazy Dec 01 '12 at 03:08

Reorder JSON with new key

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