[SOLVED] Update one of the objects in array, in an immutable way

Update one of the objects in array, in an immutable way

In React's this.state I have a property called formErrors containing the following dynamic array of objects.

[
  {fieldName: 'title', valid: false}, 
  {fieldName: 'description', valid: true},
  {fieldName: 'cityId', valid: false},
  {fieldName: 'hostDescription', valid: false},
]

Let's say I would need to update state's object having the fieldName cityId to the valid value of true.

What's the easiest or most common way to solve this?

I'm OK to use any of the libraries immutability-helper, immutable-js etc or ES6. I've tried and googled this for over 4 hours, and still cannot wrap my head around it. Would be extremely grateful for some help.

Solution

You can use map to iterate the data and check for the fieldName, if fieldName is cityId then you need to change the value and return a new object otherwise just return the same object.

Write it like this:

var data = [
    {fieldName: 'title', valid: false}, 
    {fieldName: 'description', valid: true},
    {fieldName: 'cityId', valid: false},
    {fieldName: 'hostDescription', valid: false},
]

var newData = data.map(el => {
                  if(el.fieldName == 'cityId')
                     return Object.assign({}, el, {valid:true})
                  return el
              });

this.setState({ data: newData });