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Mega Man
Mega Man

Reputation: 297

Functional JavaScript, remove assignment

How can I avoid the self variable here?

function urlBuilder(endpoint){
    var status = ["user_timeline", "home_timeline", "retweets_of_me", "show", "retweets", 
            "update", "update_with_media", "retweet", "unretweet", "retweeters", "lookup"
        ],
        friendships = ["incoming", "outgoing", "create", "destroy", "update", "show"]; 
    let endpoints = {
        status: status,
        friendships: friendships
    }

    var self = { };

    endpoints[endpoint].forEach(e => {
        self[e] = endpoint + "/" + e;
    });

    return self;

}

somewhat better, still an assignment statement. 

return [{}].map(el => {
  endpoints[endpoint].forEach(e => {
    el[e] = endpoint + "/" + e;
  });
  return el;
})[0];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 129

Answers (2)

Mulan
Mulan

Reputation: 135357

You could use Object.assign too.

It does mutate the acc but it's localized to the reduce call.

endpoints[endpoint].reduce((acc, e) =>
  Object.assign(acc, { [e]: `endpoint/${e}` }), {})

Upvotes: 1

Bergi
Bergi

Reputation: 664936

You cannot really. To create an object with a dynamic number of properties (and without using JSON.parse) you always need to mutate it by assignment or something similar.

Your best bet might be

return endpoints[endpoint].reduce((self, e) => {
    self[e] = endpoint + "/" + e;
    return self;
}, {});

which is quite functional.

Upvotes: 4

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