I've encountered a challenge that I need help with:
In my nested object, I receive a response from the server containing an object with updated values. My goal is to locate this object within my nested structure and replace it.
The structure of my object looks like this:
$scope.page = {
id: 5,
label: 'myPage',
items : [
{
"type": "Container",
"id": 1,
"label": "header",
"items": [
{
"type": "Container",
"id": 2,
"label": "left",
"items": [
{
"type": "Menu",
"label": "settings-menu",
"id": "5"
},
{
"type": "Menu",
"label": "main-menu",
"id": "7"
}
]
},
{
"type": "Container",
"id": 4,
"label": "right",
"items": [
{
"type": "Post",
"label": "contact",
"id": "25"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"type": "Postlist",
"label": "nieuwsberichten",
"id": "17"
},
{
"type": "HTML",
"label": "over deze site",
"id": "18"
},
{
"type": "Other",
"label": "twitter feed",
"id": "19"
}
]
}
A new object is received from the server:
var newItem = {
"type": "Post",
"label": "contact",
"id": "25"
}
What is the correct method to update the object within $scope.page? I have attempted the following approaches:
$scope.findAndReplace(newItem,$scope.page.items);
$scope.findAndReplace = function(newItem, items) {
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
if (items[i].id == newItem.id) {
items[i] = newItem;
} else if (items[i].items) {
$scope.findAndReplace(newItem, items[i].items);
}
}
}
and:
var oldItem = $scope.findById(item.id, $scope.page.items);
oldItem = newItem;
$scope.findById = function(id, items) {
var match = null;
angular.forEach(items, function(i){
if (match == null) {
if (i.id == id) {
match = i;
} else if (i.items) {
match = $scope.findById(id, i.items)
}
}
})
return match;
}
However, neither of these solutions seem to be working due to the nested loops causing the object not to be the one in $scope.page anymore.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tackle this issue?