I have an 'item' object in JavaScript, and the item can have settings like
color, size, etc.
I need to get all possible combinations in an array.
So lets say we have an item that looks like this:
var newItem = {
name: 'new item',
Settings: [
{name: 'color', values: ['green', 'blue', 'red']},
{name: 'size', values: ['15', '18', '22']},
{name: 'gender',values: ['male', 'female']}
]
};
I need to somehow get this:
[
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'male'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'15'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'18'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'green'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'blue'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}],
[{SettingName:'color',value:'red'},{SettingName:'size',value:'22'},{SettingName:'gender',value:'female'}]
]
This can be a good interview question.
See JS Bin for running example.
getAllPermutations(newItem);
function getAllPermutations(item) {
var permutations = [];
getAllPermutations0(item, permutations, []);
console.log(permutations);
}
function getAllPermutations0(item, permutations, array) {
if (array && array.length === item.Settings.length) {
permutations.push(array.slice()); // The slice clone the array
return;
}
var index = array.length;
var setting = item.Settings[index];
for (var i = 0; i < setting.values.length; i++) {
if (index === 0)
array = [];
var currValue = setting.values[i];
array.push({
SettingName: setting.name,
value: currValue
});
getAllPermutations0(item, permutations, array);
array.pop(); // pop the old one first
}
}
Here is a none recursive solution. It takes an empty or existing settings
"matrix" and a values
array, and return a new matrix as a combination of existing matrix content cloned for each new value, appended with pairs of new value setting items.
[A]
-> [1,2]
gives [A][1][A][2]
[A][1][A][2]
-> [X,Y]
gives [A][1][X][A][2][Y][A][2][X][A][1][Y]
and so on
function processSettings(settings, name, values) {
if (settings.length == 0) {
values.forEach(function(value) {
settings.push( [{ SettingName: name, value: value }] )
})
} else {
var oldSettings = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(settings)), settings = [], temp, i = 0
for (i; i<values.length; i++) {
temp = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(oldSettings))
temp.forEach(function(setting) {
setting.push( { SettingName: name, value: values[i] } )
settings.push(setting)
})
}
}
return settings
}
You can now create the desired settings literal this way :
var settings = []
for (var i=0; i<newItem.Settings.length; i++) {
var item = newItem.Settings[i]
settings = processSettings(settings, item.name, item.values)
}
demo -> http://jsfiddle.net/b4ck98mf/
The above produces this :
[
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"male"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"15"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"18"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"green"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"blue"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}],
[{"SettingName":"color","value":"red"},{"SettingName":"size","value":"22"},{"SettingName":"gender","value":"female"}]
]
You can use Array.prototype.map()
, for
loop, while
loop, Array.prototype.concat()
. Iterate gender
values; select each of color
, size
value in succession beginning at index 0
of either; iterating the furthest adjacent array from current gender
, increment the index of the closest adjacent array; merge the resulting two gender
arrays to form a single array containing all combinations of gender
, color
, size
var colors = newItem.Settings[0].values;
var sizes = newItem.Settings[1].values;
var gen = newItem.Settings[2].values;
var i = sizes.length;
var res = [].concat.apply([], gen.map(function(value, key) {
var next = -1;
var arr = [];
for (var curr = 0; curr < i; curr++) {
while (next < i - 1) {
arr.push([{
SettingName: "gender",
value: value
}, {
SettingName: "size",
value: sizes[curr]
}, {
SettingName: "color",
value: colors[++next]
}])
}
next = -1;
}
return arr
}))
var newItem = {
"name": "new item",
"Settings": [{
"name": "color",
"values": [
"green",
"blue",
"red"
]
}, {
"name": "size",
"values": [
"15",
"18",
"22"
]
}, {
"name": "gender",
"values": [
"male",
"female"
]
}]
}
var colors = newItem.Settings[0].values;
var sizes = newItem.Settings[1].values;
var gen = newItem.Settings[2].values;
var i = sizes.length;
var res = [].concat.apply([], gen.map(function(value, key) {
var next = -1;
var arr = [];
for (var curr = 0; curr < i; curr++) {
while (next < i - 1) {
arr.push([{
SettingName: "gender",
value: value
}, {
SettingName: "size",
value: sizes[curr]
}, {
SettingName: "color",
value: colors[++next]
}])
}
next = -1;
}
return arr
}))
document.querySelector("pre").textContent = JSON.stringify(res, null, 2)
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An approach using Array.prototype.reduce()
, Array.prototype.sort()
, Object.keys()
, for
loop, while
loop
var newItem = {
name: 'new item',
Settings: [
{
name: 'color',
values: ['green', 'blue', 'red']
},
{
name: 'size',
values: ['15', '18', '22']
},
{
name: 'gender',
values: ['male', 'female']
}
]
};
var props = ["SettingName", "value"];
var settings = newItem.Settings;
function p(settings, props) {
var data = settings.reduce(function(res, setting, index) {
var name = setting.name;
var obj = {};
obj[name] = setting.values;
res.push(obj);
return res.length < index ? res : res.sort(function(a, b) {
return a[Object.keys(a)[0]].length - b[Object.keys(b)[0]].length
})
}, []);
var key = data.splice(0, 1)[0];
return [].concat.apply([], key[Object.keys(key)].map(function(value, index) {
return data.reduce(function(v, k) {
var keys = [v, k].map(function(obj) {
return Object.keys(obj)[0]
});
var i = Math.max.apply(Math, [v[keys[0]].length, k[keys[1]].length]);
var next = -1;
var arr = [];
for (var curr = 0; curr < i; curr++) {
while (next < i - 1) {
var a = {};
a[props[0]] = keys[0];
a[props[1]] = v[keys[0]][++next];
var b = {};
b[props[0]] = keys[1];
b[props[1]] = k[keys[1]][next];
var c = {};
c[props[0]] = Object.keys(key)[0];
c[props[1]] = value;
arr.push([a, b, c]);
};
next = -1;
}
return arr
});
}));
}
document.querySelector("pre").textContent = JSON.stringify(
p(settings, props), null, 2
);
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