array of objects

Re: array of objects

<wlevine@sigsys .netwrote in message
news:1152979948 .915942.244880@ 75g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...Assuming you want an arrau of those objects: ;^)

You can do this in literal notation like so:

MyArray = [
new objFacility(... ),
new objFacility(... ),
new objFacility(... )
];

The brackets indicate an array.

You can also do this in script like so:

MyArray = new Array();
MyArray[MyArray.length] = new objFacility(... );

In this case "MyArray.length " is just saying "make this the last element in
the array". You could also, of course, loop over something to do the same
thing:

Just as a plug. If you need to do any really work with the resulting array
of objects you might want to check out my Object Collection Ordered
abstraction object here:



It basically creates an array of objects as we've just done but also exposes
lots of methods for managing and ordering them. Once the object is imported
you might do this:

MyFacilities = new DP_ObCollection Ordered("id", objFacility);

This creates the collection and tells it that only "objFacilit y" objects can
be stored in it. It also tells it that the "id" field will be used as the
unique identifier for the collection.

You can then add elements to the collection like this:

MyFacilities.ad d( new objFacility(... ) );
MyFacilities.ad d( new objFacility(... ) );
MyFacilities.ad d( new objFacility(... ) );

Once that's done you have a lot of capabilities. To get one element you
would just do:

MyFacilities.ge t(FacilityID);

To get everything (as a reference to the internal array) you would do:

MyFacilities.ge tAll();

To get the first element in the collection you would say:

MyFacilities.ge tAt(0);

To move the first element down two steps (in the language of the collection
object "reduce its rank by two") you would do:

MyFacilities.de moteAt(0, 2);

To move a specific element down two steps you would say:

MyFacilities.de mote(FacilityID , 2);

There are lots of similar methods for adjusting rank: promote(),
promoteAt(), swap(), swapAt(), setRank(), etc.

Finally the collection object offers a generic, but pretty powerful sorting
function called "sortByProp ()". To sort the collection by Facility Name
regardless of alphabetic case you could do this:

MyFacilities.so rtByProp(name, "AlphaNoCas e", "asc");

To resort the list by name descending you would just do this:

MyFacilities.so rtByProp(name, "AlphaNoCas e", "Desc");

There are examples on the page for generating drop down select boxes and
dynamically sortable tables on the page as well.

I hope this helps,

Jim Davis

Re: array of objects

wlevine@sigsys. net wrote:If you want to retrieve objects by id, then you should use an object, not an
array. Since functions are also objects, you could store the members in the
function itself.

function objFacility(id, name, adr, city, state, zip) {
return objFacility[id] = {
id: id,
name: name,
adr: adr,
city: city,
state: state,
zip: zip
}
}

objFacility('wl evine', 'Levine', '23 Skid Row', 'Springfield', 'Il', 10010);

The object can be obtained with objFacility.wle vine