How to detect arrays in web development

This time I will show you how to detect arrays in web development. What are the precautions for detecting arrays in web development? The following is a practical case, let's take a look.

One of the oldest cross-domain problems in JS is passing arrays back and forth between frames. Developers quickly discovered that instanceof Array did not always return the correct results in this scenario. As mentioned above, each frame has its own Array

constructor, so instances in one frame will not be recognized in another frame. Douglas Crockford first recommended the use of the "duck typing" interface (duck typing). "Duck typing" was a concept first proposed by the writer James Whitcomb Riley, that is, "a bird that walks, swims and quacks like a duck is a duck." Essentially, focus on "what the object can do" rather than "what the object is".

// 采用鸭式辨型的方法检测数组function isArray(value) {  return typeof value.sort === "function";
}

This detection method relies on the fact that arrays are the only objects that contain a sort() method. Of course, if the parameter passed into isArray() is an object containing the sort() method, it will also return true.

There has been a lot of research on how to detect array types in JS, and finally, Juriy Zaytsev (also known as Kangax) came up with an elegant solution.

function isArray(value) {  return Object.prototype.toString.call(value) === "[object Array]";
}

Kangax found that calling the built-in toString() method on a value returns the standard

string result in all browsers. For arrays, the returned string is "[object Array]", regardless of the frame in which the array instance was constructed. The solution given by Kangax quickly became popular and was adopted by most JSclass libraries.

This method is often very useful when identifying built-in objects, but please do not use this method for custom objects. For example, using this method with the built-in JSON object will return "[object JSON]".

Since then, ECMAScript5 has officially introduced Array.isArray() into JS. The only purpose is to accurately detect whether a value is an array. Like Kangax's function, Array.isArray() can also detect values ​​passed across frames, so many JS libraries currently implement this method similarly.

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