How do i find and count unique values in nested JSON objects?

i have the following JavaScript

{
  "business": [
{
  "order_contents": [
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 85,
      "name": "product 3",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 84,
      "name": "product 2",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 83,
      "name": "product 1",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    },
    {
      "id": 84,
      "name": "product 2",
      "price": "1.99",
      "quantity": 1,
      "total": "1.99",
      "ingredients": [],
      "extras": []
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}

What i am trying to accomplish is when the order comes through a function scans the JSON and creates an array with each unique product name and adds 1 to the quantity each time.

i have tried using a for loop but it loops it the amount of times but doesn’t find the name and value in the nested object of each one, it comes back as name = 0 and the value being the individual nested object inside the main object.

Answer

A function like the beneath would work. Basically you pass the array as parameter and return an object that 1) gets a new property if the property does not exist yet (eg. the product id), and 2) adds to the count of items when the property does exist. The function below generates an output like: {'product 1': 10, 'product 2': 1, 'product 3': 2}

function getItems(input) {
  var arr = input, obj = {};
  for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    if (!obj[arr[i].name]) {
      obj[arr[i].name] = 1;
    } else if (obj[arr[i].name]) {
      obj[arr[i].name] += 1;
    }
  }
  return obj;
}
// example use
console.log(getItems(order_contents)); // outputs entire object
console.log(getItems(order_contents)['product 1']); // outputs 10