javascript extract certain properties from all objects in array

Question

I have an array of objects with the same properties. Each object has around a hundred properties. I want to keep only a handful of them in a new array:

var dummyArray = [{ "att1": "something", "att2": "something", ..., "att100": "something"}, { "att1": "something", "att2": "something", ..., "att100": "something"}, ...];

How can I filter/map/reduce... and extract the interesting keys?

const newDummArray = dummyArray.map(function(item) { 
    delete item.att1; 
    delete item.att3; 
    delete item.att15;
    // ... (long list)
    return item; 
});

how can I keep only att20, att30, att70, att80 for each object and delete the rest?

Answer 1

Use object destructuring to get the properties, and generate a new object using shorthand property names:

const dummyArray = [{ "att20": "att20", "att30": "att30", "att70": "att70", "att80": "att80"}, { "att20": "att20", "att30": "att30", "att70": "att70", "att80": "att80"}];

const result = dummyArray.map(({ att20, att30, att70, att80 }) => ({
  att20, 
  att30, 
  att70, 
  att80
}));

console.log(result);