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javascriptecmascript-6object-composition
Peter S.
Peter S.

Reputation: 397

Composing object in javascript by passing a list of functionality to a factory function

Using an example from this source

const barker = (state) => ({
  bark: () => console.log('Woof, I am ' + state.name)
})

const driver = (state) => ({
  drive: () => state.position = state.position + state.speed
})

const murderRobotDog = (name)  => {
  let state = {
    name,
    speed: 100,
    position: 0
  }
  return Object.assign(
        {},
        barker(state),
        driver(state)
    )
}

How should I modify this code, to be able to assign functionality based on a parameter passed to the factory function.

For example I could have an array of names like so:

let properties = ["barker", "driver", "killer" etc... ];
murderRobotDog(name, properties);

And it does Object.assign to each of those function names?

I am still learning new syntax, I tried using spread operator like so:

return Object.assign({}, ...properties(state));

Only to come to realization that this is not how any of this works. Can't really figure out how to make a loop out of this either. How should this be done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

bitshift
bitshift

Reputation: 514

You could create a dictionary where the keys form the function names. Then you can just loop over the properties and do the Object.assign:

const barker = (state) => ({
    bark: () => console.log('Woof, I am ' + state.name)
});

const driver = (state) => ({
    drive: () => state.position = state.position + state.speed
});

let types = {
    barker,
    driver
};

const murderRobotDog = (name, properties) => {
    let state = {
        name,
        speed: 100,
        position: 0
    };

    let obj = {};
    for(let prop of properties) {
        Object.assign(obj, types[prop](state));
    }

    return obj;
}

let properties = ["barker", "driver"];
let result = murderRobotDog('Name', properties);
console.log(result);
result.bark()

Output:

node .\index.js
{ bark: [Function: bark], drive: [Function: drive] }
Woof, I am Name

Upvotes: 1

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