I have a dynamic form, that is nested, the form is to describe an overhead gantry crane.
so the structure looks like this:
let equipmentInfo = {
bridges:[{
trolleys:[{
hoists:[{
}]
}]
}]
}
I have a function component for each bridge, trolley, and hoist set of fields. I pass down an array that describes its location in the tree like:
let keyPath = [['arrayLocation', indexOfEntry]] // [['bridge', 1], ['trolley',3], ['hoist', 0]]
My question surrounds the use of this getObject function
const getObject = (object, location) => {
if(object == undefined) return {}
if(location.length == 0) return object
if(location.length == 1) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]]
if(location.length == 2) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]]
if(location.length == 3) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]][location[2][0]][location[2][1]]
if(location.length == 4) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]][location[2][0]][location[2][1]][location[3][0]][location[3][1]]
if(location.length == 5) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]][location[2][0]][location[2][1]][location[3][0]][location[3][1]][location[4][0]][location[4][1]]
if(location.length == 6) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]][location[2][0]][location[2][1]][location[3][0]][location[3][1]][location[4][0]][location[4][1]][location[5][0]][location[5][1]]
if(location.length == 7) return object[location[0][0]][location[0][1]][location[1][0]][location[1][1]][location[2][0]][location[2][1]][location[3][0]][location[3][1]][location[4][0]][location[4][1]][location[5][0]][location[5][1]][location[6][0]][location[6][1]]
}
its used in the handleOnChange like this:
const handleInputChange = (e, keyPath) => {
const { name, value } = e.target;
const object = {...equipmentInfo}
const targetObject = getObject(object, keyPath)
targetObject[name] = value
setObject(targetObject, object, keyPath)
setEquipmentInfo(object);
};
Is there a better way to do this? not only for better readability, but to support n amount of branches.
<BridgeFields
keyPath={newKeypath}
handleOnChange={handleOnChange}
equipmentInfo={EquipmentInfo}
setEquipmentInfo={setEquipentInfo}
/>
Here is the implementation example:
// inside <BridgeFields/>
getObject(equipmentInfo, keyPath).trolleys.map((trolly, index)) => {
// add to the keyPath the compenent and its index
let newKeyPath = [...keyPath, ["trolleys", index]]
// Form fields describing a bridge
<Form.Component
type='text'
name='serialNumber'
onChange={(e)=>{handleOnChange(e, newKeyPath)}
/>
// also include its child component fields (hoists, etc) .. like:
<HoistFields
keyPath={newKeypath}
handleOnChange={handleOnChange}
equipmentInfo={EquipmentInfo}
setEquipmentInfo={setEquipentInfo}
}
This works and its actually quite fast, but im looking to improve what I've done here. there is more to this equipmentInfo object and i would like to make it better.
I appreciate any advice thanks!
One possible solution (with the assumption that the location
array will have the exact keys namely 'bridges', 'trolleys', 'hoists') is to use Array reduce
like so:
const getObj = (obj = equipmentInfo, location = [['bridges', 1], ['trolleys', 0], ['hoists', 0]]) => (
location.reduce(
(acc, itm) => ({ ... acc[itm[0]][itm[1]] }), obj || {}
)
);
Explanation
location
array, get the prop (indicated by the 0-th index).location
element's value at index-1 to identify the required array element (of the array at step-2 above)Apologies, if this explanation is not too clear.
Code-snippet to verify
const equipmentInfo = {
bridges: [{
trolleys: [{
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t0h0v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t0h1v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t0h2v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t1h0v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t1h1v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b0t1h2v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}]
}, {
trolleys: [{
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t0h0v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t0h1v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t0h2v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t1h0v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t1h1v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}, {
hoists: [{
k0: 'b1t1h2v0'
}, {
k1: 'v1'
}, {
k2: 'v2'
}]
}]
}]
};
const getObj = (obj = equipmentInfo, location = [
['bridges', 1],
['trolleys', 0],
['hoists', 0]
]) => (
location.reduce(
(acc, itm) => ({ ...acc[itm[0]][itm[1]]
}), obj || {}
)
);
console.log('b 1, t 0, h 0', getObj());
console.log('b 1, t 1, h 0', getObj(equipmentInfo, [
['bridges', 1],
['trolleys', 1],
['hoists', 0]
]));
console.log('b 0, t 1, h 0', getObj(equipmentInfo, [
['bridges', 0],
['trolleys', 1],
['hoists', 0]
]));
console.log('b 0, t 0, h 0', getObj(equipmentInfo, [
['bridges', 0],
['trolleys', 0],
['hoists', 0]
]));
Edit
Set-object code:
const setObj = (updatedObj, obj = equipmentInfo, location = [
['bridges', 1],
['trolleys', 0],
['hoists', 1]
]) => {
location.reduce((acc, itm, idx) => {
const tgtObj = acc[itm[0]][itm[1]];
if (idx < location.length - 1) return tgtObj;
acc[itm[0]][itm[1]] = {
...tgtObj,
...updatedObj
};
return null;
}, obj);
};
let myObj = {
...equipmentInfo
};
setObj({
zztest: 'okay'
}, myObj);
console.log(myObj);