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Javascript equality checker.
const isEqual = function(inputs = []) {
// Checks an element if js object.
const isObject = function(data) {
return Object.prototype.toString.call(data) === '[object Object]';
};
// Sorts given object by its keys.
const sortObjectByKey = function(obj) {
if (!obj) return {};
return Object.keys(obj).sort().reduce((initialVal, item) => {
initialVal[item] = !Array.isArray(obj[item]) &&
typeof obj[item] === 'object'
? sortObjectByKey(obj[item])
: obj[item];
return initialVal;
}, {});
};
// Checks equality of all elements in the input against each other. Returns true | false
return (
inputs
.map(
input =>
typeof input == 'undefined'
? undefined
: isObject(input)
? JSON.stringify(sortObjectByKey(input))
: JSON.stringify(input)
)
.reduce(
(prevValue, input) =>
prevValue === '' || prevValue === input ? input : false,
''
) !== false
);
};
// Tests (Made with Jest test framework.)
test('String equality check', () => {
expect(isEqual(['murat'])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual(['murat', 'john', 'doe'])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual(['murat', 'murat', 'murat'])).toEqual(true);
});
test('Float equality check', () => {
expect(isEqual([7.89, 3.45])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual([7, 7.50])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual([7.50, 7.50])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual([7, 7])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual([0.34, 0.33])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual([0.33, 0.33])).toEqual(true);
});
test('Array equality check', () => {
expect(isEqual([[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual([[1, 3], [1, 2, 3]])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual([['murat', 18], ['murat', 18]])).toEqual(true);
});
test('Object equality check', () => {
let obj1 = {
name: 'murat',
age: 18
};
let obj2 = {
name: 'murat',
age: 18
};
let obj3 = {
age: 18,
name: 'murat'
};
let obj4 = {
name: 'murat',
age: 18,
occupation: 'nothing'
};
expect(isEqual([obj1, obj2])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual([obj1, obj2, obj3])).toEqual(true);
expect(isEqual([obj1, obj2, obj3, obj4])).toEqual(false);
});
test('Weird equality checks', () => {
expect(isEqual(['', {}])).toEqual(false);
expect(isEqual([0, '0'])).toEqual(false);
});
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