I have been playing around with some Nested Set Models (NSM). One thing I wanted to do is to be able to generate a NSM from a given JavaScript object.
For example, given the following object:
var data = {
Clothes: {
Jackets: {
Waterproof: true,
Insulated: true
},
Hats: true,
Socks: true
},
}
I'd like to generate an array of objects like so.
[
{
"name": "Clothes",
"lft": 1,
"rgt": 12
},
{
"name": "Jackets",
"lft": 2,
"rgt": 7
},
{
"name": "Waterproof",
"lft": 3,
"rgt": 4
},
{
"name": "Insulated",
"lft": 5,
"rgt": 6
},
{
"name": "Hats",
"lft": 8,
"rgt": 9
},
{
"name": "Socks",
"lft": 10,
"rgt": 11
}
]
That is - a depth first walk through the object, assigning an ID and counting the left and right edge for each object in the hierarchy. So that each node has a unique ID and the correct lft
and rgt
values for a NSM.
I've tried various approaches but just can't seem to get the result I am after...I had some success by altering the model to use properties for the node name and child nodes - i.e.
var data2 = {
name: "Clothes",
children: [{
name: "Jackets",
children: [{
name: "Waterproof",
}, {
name: "Insulated"
}]
}, {
name: "Hats"
},
{
name: "Socks"
}
]
};
function nestedSet(o, c, l = 0) {
let n = {
name: o.name,
lft: l + 1
};
c.push(n);
let r = n.lft;
for (var x in o.children) {
r = nestedSet(o.children[x], c, r);
}
n.rgt = r + 1;
return n.rgt;
}
let out = [];
nestedSet(data2, out);
console.log(out)
This gives the correct result but requires altering the input data...is there a way to generate the same Nested Set Model using the original data
object?
I actually managed to solve this in the end...I just forgot about it for a long while! Basically all that is required is to reclusively pass the Object.entries
as kindly suggested in @CherryDT's comment. This way one can resolve the name/children to build the nested set model as required.
var data = {
Clothes: {
Jackets: {
Waterproof: {},
Insulated: {},
},
Hats: {},
Socks: {},
},
};
function ns(node, stack = [], lft = 0) {
var rgt = ++lft;
var item = {
name: node[0],
lft: lft,
};
stack.push(item);
Object.entries(node[1]).forEach(function (c) {
rgt = ns(c, stack, rgt);
});
item.rgt = ++rgt;
return rgt;
}
var result = [];
ns(Object.entries(data)[0], result);
console.log(result);