I am attempting to enhance the functionality of a JavaScript native array within an Angular service without extending global objects through prototyping.
app.factory('Collection', function($http, $q) {
var Collection = function(arr) {
this.key = 'id';
this._last = 0;
this._first = 77777777; //just big number.
this.append(arr);
}
Collection.prototype = new Array;
Collection.prototype.orderBy = function(n, reverse) {
if (reverse) {
this.sort(function(a, b) {
return b[n] - a[n];
})
} else {
this.sort(function(a, b) {
return a[n] - b[n];
})
}
}
Collection.prototype.spliceBy = function(key, val) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
if (this[i][key] !== val) {
this.splice(i, 1); ///THIS NEVER HAPPENS !!
console.log('removed ' + i + ' from ', this);
}
}
}
Collection.prototype.subset = function(key, val) {
return this.filter(function(v) {
return (v[key] === val);
});
}
Collection.prototype.add = function(obj) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
if (this[i][this.key] > this._last) {
this._last = this[i][this.key];
}
if (this[i][this.key] < this._first) {
this._first = this[i][this.key];
}
if (this[i][this.key] === data[this.key]) {
if (override) {
this[i] = data;
console.log('updated uniquePush');
}
return i;
break;
}
}
var id = this.push(data) - 1;
data._index = id;
return id;
}
return collection
});
The above code works perfectly except for the spliceBy function. I am trying to filter out elements that do not have a certain value. For instance, in my controller:
.controller(function($scope,Collection){
$scope.posts = new Collection;
$scope.posts.add({id:1,type:'post'});
$scope.posts.add({id:2,type:'comment'});
//Collection is now [{id:1,type:post},{id:2,type:comment}];
//I want to remove all comments from the array
$scope.posts.spliceBy('type','comment');
});
When I call spliceBy, nothing seems to happen :*(