Object values in jQuery

Question

The prototypeJS library has a method Object.values() which returns an array of values in an object.

EG:

 var myObj = {
   "key1" : "val1"
   "key2" : "val2"
 }
 Object.values(myObj) //returns ["val1", "val2"]

is there a jQuery method

Answer 1

prototypejs' values method extends JavaScript's builtin Object object. There's nothing stopping you from doing the same:

Object.values = function(object) {
  var values = [];
  for(var property in object) {
    values.push(object[property]);
  }
  return values;
}


var foo = {a:1, b:2, c:3};
console.log(Object.values(foo));
// [1, 2, 3]

Alternatively, you can add the method described above to the jQuery object if you'd rather not tamper with Object:

$.values = function() { ... }