How to sort array objects in alphabetical order

[shaik_irfan]

Hi,

I am gettting an array from the server as shown below, I am trying to pull name from it which i am able to do but i want to fetch in alphabetical order.

{ "locations": [ { "coordinates": { "latitude": "15", "longitude": "101" }, "name": "Thailand", "country_code": "TH", "id": 0, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.942964Z", "province": "" }, { "coordinates": { "latitude": "36", "longitude": "138" }, "name": "Japan", "country_code": "JP", "id": 1, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.949480Z", "province": "" }, { "coordinates": { "latitude": "1.2833", "longitude": "103.8333" }, "name": "Singapore", "country_code": "SG", "id": 2, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.953686Z", "province": "" } ] } 

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var jsonString = '{ "locations": [ { "coordinates": { "latitude": "15", "longitude": "101" }, "name": "Thailand", "country_code": "TH", "id": 0, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.942964Z", "province": "" }, { "coordinates": { "latitude": "36", "longitude": "138" }, "name": "Japan", "country_code": "JP", "id": 1, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.949480Z", "province": "" }, { "coordinates": { "latitude": "1.2833", "longitude": "103.8333" }, "name": "Singapore", "country_code": "SG", "id": 2, "last_updated": "2020-03-21T17:18:19.953686Z", "province": "" } ] }';

var parser = JSON.parse(jsonString);

var length = parser.locations.length;
var nameArray = [];

for(var i=0;i<length;i++)
nameArray.push(parser.locations[i].name);

gs.info(nameArray);

Now i am getting the response as shown below:

Thailand,Japan,Singapore

But i want the response in

Japan,Singapore,Thailand

[The Machine]

Add .sort() to your array.  i.e. nameArray.sort() and it should be in alphabetical order.

[shaik_irfan]

@MB 

It works for me. But what if i have multiple objects within an array and i want to sort by name ?

Ex:

var parser = JSON.parse(responseBody);

var length = parser.locations.length;
var nameArray = [];

for(var i=0;i<length;i++){
var ob = {};
if(parser.locations[i].province != ""){

ob.text = parser.locations[i].country + '-' + parser.locations[i].province;
ob.id = parser.locations[i].id;

nameArray.push(ob);

}

I got the output as shown below:

[{"text":"Thailand","id":0},{"text":"Japan","id":1},{"text":"Singapore","id":2},{"text":"Nepal","id":3},{"text":"Malaysia","id":4},{"text":"Canada-British Columbia","id":5},{"text":"Australia-New South Wales","id":6}]

Now i want to sort with Text object, can you please help me how to do this ?

[The Machine]

You can try something like this.  

https://gomakethings.com/sorting-an-array-by-multiple-criteria-with-vanilla-javascript/

[shaik_irfan]

@MB Sir,

I tried but i am not able to get this.

with below example i want to sort by title 

var votes = [
{ title: 'Apple', votes: 1 },
{ title: 'Milk', votes: 2 },
{ title: 'Carrot', votes: 3 },
{ title: 'Banana', votes: 4 }
];

Expected result should be

var votes = [
{ title: 'Apple', votes: 1 },
{ title: 'Banana', votes: 4 },
{ title: 'Carrot', votes: 3 },
{ title: 'Milk', votes: 2 }
];