I am working on a recursive function to navigate through an object that resembles a directory structure, and extract the 'file' objects into an array. However, I'm encountering an issue where instead of getting a simple array with the expected objects, I'm ending up with an array of arrays...
At the end of the code snippet, there are console.logs showing:
console.log(findEntry(repAll, '/first')); // ===> [ { name: '/first' }, [] ]
console.log(findEntry(repAll, '/second')); // ===> [ [ { name: '/second' }, { name: '/second' } ] ]
const repAll = {
file1: {
name: "/first"
},
SubDir: {
file2: {
name: "/second"
},
file3: {
name: "/second"
}
}
};
const req = {};
function findEntry(data, name) {
let x = [];
for (const value of Object.values(data)) {
// Is this a leaf node or a container?
if (value.name) {
// Leaf, return it if it's a match
if (value.name === name) {
x.push(value);
}
} else {
// Container, look inside it recursively
const entry = findEntry(value, name);
x.push(entry);
}
}
return x;
}
console.log('search: /first');
console.log(findEntry(repAll, '/first'));
console.log('search: /second');
console.log(findEntry(repAll, '/second'));