Bug in the Question

[sidvashishth]

Tell us what’s happening:
So question demands 2 thing which are contradictory and wont let the level move ahead.

1. checkObj({gift: "pony", pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return the string pony .

2. checkObj({pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return the string Not Found .

   Your code so far

function checkObj(obj, checkProp) {
// Only change code below this line
var obj = {
gift: "pony",
pet: "kitten",
bed: "sleigh",
city: "Seattle"
};

if (obj.hasOwnProperty(checkProp)){
return obj[checkProp];
}
else {
return "Not Found";
}

return "Change Me!";
// Only change code above this line
}

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Challenge: Testing Objects for Properties

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[JeremyLT]

@sidvashishth

var obj = {
gift: "pony",
pet: "kitten",
bed: "sleigh",
city: "Seattle"
};

Here is your bug. The instructions did not tell you to insert this hard-coded object into your function.

[ilenia]

they are not contradictory

@sidvashishth

checkObj({gift: "pony", pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return the string pony .

this one is checking the object {gift: "pony", pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, which contains the gift property with a value of "pony"

@sidvashishth

checkObj({pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return the string Not Found .

this one is checking the object {pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"} which does not have the gift property

notice that you overwrite the value of the first parameter, instead of using the objecy passed in

[sidvashishth]

@JeremyLT @ilenia
got it… thanks a lot