Stack Overflow Asked by Nitish Kumar on February 23, 2021
I’m working on dynamic form builder where I’ve form elements inside row/column grid structure, each of my form elements (object) have a special key named model which defines the field name and value key which defines its value. I have again have nested form which does the same, I need to extract these model and values and make them an Object in case of form repeater it will be an array. Here’s a sample format of my form data:
[
{
"component":"row",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"column",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"first_name",
"value":"",
}
},
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"last_name",
"value":"",
}
}
]
}
},
{
"component":"column",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"form-repeater",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"column",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"name",
"value": ""
}
},
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"url",
"value":""
}
}
]
}
},
{
"component":"column",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"name",
"value":""
}
},
{
"component":"input-text",
"attrs":{
"child_components":[
],
"model":"url",
"value":""
}
}
]
}
}
],
"model":"links",
"value":""
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}
]
To execute this I’m trying to do make a recursive function:
findModel(ele) {
ele.forEach((element) => {
if(typeof element.attrs.model !== 'undefined') {
if(element.component === 'form-repeater') {
let repeater = [];
element.attrs.child_components.forEach((rep) => {
let data = this.findModel(rep.attrs.child_components);
repeater.push(data);
})
const repeaterData = {}
repeaterData[element.attrs.model] = repeater;
return repeaterData;
}
else {
const data = {}
data[element.attrs.model] = element.attrs.value;
return data;
}
}
else {
if(typeof element.attrs.child_components !== 'undefined' && element.attrs.child_components.length) {
return this.findModel(element.attrs.child_components);
}
}
})
},
And I’m calling this function:
let data = findModel(form_data)
console.log(data)
//Always comes undefined.
My final format of data will look something like this which I’m unable to achieve:
{
first_name: '',
last_name: '',
links: [
{name: '', url: ''},
{name: '', url: ''}
]
}
Help me out in achieving the above format. Any better approach to this is most welcome. Thanks.
Your function returns undefined because it does not have a return statement. The return statements that you have, are returning from the forEach callback, which is (obviously) not the same function.
Returning a value in a forEach callback is useless, as that value disappears in oblivion. A forEach is not intended for that.
You need to:
.map instead of .forEach.mapSo:
return ele.map((element) => {
Finally, there is a case in your callback logic where you do not return a value: the outer else block has a return inside an if block, but there is no return statement for when that inner if condition is not true. So there is a theoretical possibility that the callback will return undefined in some cases, meaning that the .map will return an array with a potential undefined element.
You should make sure that all cases, within the callback code, result in a controlled return.
Answered by trincot on February 23, 2021
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