Alright, I'm revising this because it seems to be causing confusion.
Imagine you have two items x
and y
. What I aim to do is swap all the characteristics of x
with those of y
.
(Please note that this isn't your usual duplication process where a new object (z
) is made. The goal here is to update object x
, not replace it.)
I was thinking that perhaps one could accomplish this by utilizing two separate for-in
loops (along with hasOwnProperty
checks), one for clearing out everything from x
and another for transferring over all properties from y
to x
, but that approach feels somewhat clunky.
Is there a more refined method for achieving this task? Does JavaScript (or even jQuery) offer an in-built function for duplicating the state of one object into another existing object?