Walenty / Slowal

// get position of an object from array with given id field value
function indexOfId(array, id) {
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        if (array[i].id == id) {
            return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

function normalizeFormData(data) {
    if ((typeof data) == 'string') {
        return [data];
    } else {
        if ((typeof data) == 'undefined') {
            return [];
        } else {
            return data;
        }
    }
}

function onlyUnique (value, index, self) {
    return self.indexOf(value) === index;
}

function unique(list) {
    return list.filter( onlyUnique );
}