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The document is a question on Stack Overflow asking for guidance on generating the cartesian product of array of objects in JavaScript. The key points are: 1) The asker has a function that can generate the cartesian product of single array elements but is struggling to extend it to array of objects. 2) An example input and expected output is provided showing the cartesian product of combining two arrays of objects. 3) The current function the asker has written is returning the wrong output format and guidance is needed to modify it to return the expected output format.

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Cartesian Product On Multiple Array of Objects in Javascript - Stack Overflow

The document is a question on Stack Overflow asking for guidance on generating the cartesian product of array of objects in JavaScript. The key points are: 1) The asker has a function that can generate the cartesian product of single array elements but is struggling to extend it to array of objects. 2) An example input and expected output is provided showing the cartesian product of combining two arrays of objects. 3) The current function the asker has written is returning the wrong output format and guidance is needed to modify it to return the expected output format.

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javascript
arrays
cartesian-product

I have been working on cartesian product for single elements and array of objects. For single array elements
I have understood the solution but for array of objects I struggle to achieve.
For example input

cartesianProductOf([{col1:'A'}], [{col2:'B'},{col3:'C'}])

Output :

[{col1:'A',col2:'B'},{col1:'A',col3:'C'}]

Here is the function which I was working on

function cartesianProductOf() {

return Array.prototype.reduce.call(arguments, function(a, b) {

var ret = [];

debugger;

a.forEach(function(a) {

b.forEach(function(b) {
var r = a.concat([b])

ret.push(r);

});

});

return ret;

}, [[]]);

}
This function returning this result

[{col1:'A'},{col2:'B'}],[{col1:'A'},{col3:'C'}]

Need guidance.

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Ghazanfar Khan asked
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Lahar Shah
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5,920 ● 4 ● 25 ● 39 Nov 28 '16 at 21:40

is there a reason you need to use reduce?


– Luke Kot-Zaniewski
Nov 28 '16 at 22:12

I believe the true Cartesian Product here is actually {{col1:'A'},{col2:'B'}},{{col1:'A'},{col3:'C'}} . However,


that is not a valid javascript construct as a javascript object must be a name-value pair.
– nurdyguy
Nov 28 '16 at 22:29

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Instead of using an array to push to, you want to merge the objects:
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function cartesianProductOf() {

return Array.prototype.reduce.call(arguments, function(a, b) {

var ret = [];

a.forEach(function(a_el) {
b.forEach(function(b_el) {

ret.push(Object.assign({}, a_el, b_el));

// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

});

});

return ret;
}, [{}]);

// ^^
}

If you don't want to use Object.assign or it's polyfill, the equivalent would be

var r = {};

for (var p in a_el)

r[p] = a_el[p];

for (var p in b_el)

r[p] = b_el[p];

ret.push(r);

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Bergi
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548k ● 122 ● 864 ● 1222 Nov 28 '16 at 22:54

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Here's a solution using Ramda.js

const cartesianProduct = (...Xs) =>

R.reduce(

(Ys, X) =>

R.map(R.apply(R.append), R.xprod(X, Ys)),

[[]],

Xs

const cartesianProductOf = (...objs) =>

R.map(R.mergeAll, cartesianProduct(...objs))

console.log(

cartesianProductOf(

[{col1: 'A'}],[{col2: 'B'}, {col3: 'C'}],

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>

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Chris Vouga
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Jun 6 '19 at 6:01

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