javascript how to find number of children in an object

is there a way to find the number of children in a javascript object other than running a loop and using a counter? I can leverage jquery if it will help. I am doing this:

var childScenesObj = [];
var childScenesLen = scenes[sceneID].length; //need to find number of children of scenes[sceneID]. This obviously does not work, as it an object, not an array.


for (childIndex in scenes[sceneID].children) {
    childSceneObj = new Object();
    childS开发者_JAVA技巧ceneID = scenes[sceneID].children[childIndex];
    childSceneNode = scenes[childSceneID];
    childSceneObj.name = childSceneNode.name;
    childSceneObj.id = childSceneID;
    childScenesObj  .push(childSceneObj);
}

The following works in ECMAScript5 (Javascript 1.85)

var x = {"1":1, "A":2};
Object.keys(x).length; //outputs 2

If that object is actually an Array, .length will always get you the number of indexes. If you're referring to an object and you want to get the number of attributes/keys in the object, there's no way I know to that other than a counter:

var myArr = [];
alert(myArr.length);// 0
myArr.push('hi');
alert(myArr.length);// 1

var myObj = {};
myObj["color1"] = "red";
myObj["color2"] = "blue";

// only way I know of to get "myObj.length"
var myObjLen = 0;
for(var key in myObj)
  myObjLen++;