JavaScript Testing Objects for Properties

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
I can’t get my code to pass for the else statements and I keep getting an “Unexpected token” error on my else. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong. Can anyone help me figure out my error(s)?

Your code so far


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

function checkObj(obj, checkProp) {
  // Only change code below this line
if (myObj.hasOwnProperty(checkProp)); {
  return myObj[checkProp];
  } else {
  return "Not Found";}
  
  // Only change code above this line
}

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**Challenge:** Testing Objects for Properties

**Link to the challenge:**
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/testing-objects-for-properties
2

you have an extra ; after the if condition

remove that to solve the syntax error

it will not pass the challenge tho

3

Thanks ieahleen! Now almost everything passes except the final condition. Here is my code at present

var myObj = {

gift: “pony”,

pet: “kitten”,

bed: “sleigh”,

city: “Seattle”

};

function checkObj(obj, checkProp) {

// Only change code below this line

if (myObj.hasOwnProperty(checkProp)) {

return myObj[checkProp];

} else {

return “Not Found”;}

// Only change code above this line

}

This is the condition that is not passing: checkObj({pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return "Not Found" .

4

You’ve written a function that takes two parameters: obj and checkProp.

Why is obj passed to the function, what’s the purpose?

5

jsdisco I’m not sure. That was the line already included from FreeCodeCamp. But when I remove obj and just have checkProp it makes less of the conditions pass.

6

I see my error now. I should have myObj rather than obj there. There helps everything pass! Thanks for the tip!

7

My final code that passed was:

var myObj = {
gift: “pony”,
pet: “kitten”,
bed: “sleigh”,
city: “Seattle”
};

function checkObj(myObj, checkProp) {
// Only change code below this line
if (myObj.hasOwnProperty(checkProp)) {
return myObj[checkProp];
} else {
return “Not Found”;}

// Only change code above this line
}

8

That might pass the tests, but it’s still a little off - are you aware that you can just delete the object myObj that you’ve created, and the tests will still pass?