current state not accessible

[amelon]

Hi, Could you add method to get the current state?

Current state is saved on this[STATE] but I have no chance to get it back except doing this.__state :(.

class RecursiveIterator {
  ...
  getCurrentState() { return this[STATE]; }
  ...
}

[nervgh]

Hi

What is use case for this?

[amelon]

I need to iterate over an object and to make promise on leaf. The result is a clone initial object with transformed leaf.

I've found this solution to iterate: (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24660096/correct-way-to-write-loops-for-promise)

var promiseFor = Promise.method(function(condition, action, value) {
    if (!condition(value)) return value;
    return action(value).then(promiseFor.bind(null, condition, action));
});

with following implementation (i used your clone/copy implementation):

function transformObj(data) {
  var rootNode = shallowCopy(data),
      map      = new Map(),
      iterator = new RecursiveIterator(data, 1, true),
      currentState;

  map.set(data, rootNode);

  return promiseFor(function(iterator) {
      var state = iterator.next();
      currentState = state.value;
      return !state.done;
    }, function(iterator) {
      var parentNode = map.get(currentState.parent),
          node       = currentState.node;

      return getNodePromiseValue(node, currentState.path, iterator)
        .then(function(cleanNode) {
          parentNode[currentState.key] = cleanNode;
          map.set(node, cleanNode);
          return iterator;
        });
    }, iterator)
    .then(function() {
      map.clear();
      return rootNode;
    });
}

getNodePromiseValue is a function that return a promise.

But I need to store the current state currentState = state.value; in the condition function

It would be nice to have a getCurrentState to make it simple like this:

function transformObj(data) {
  var rootNode = shallowCopy(data),
      map      = new Map(),
      iterator = new RecursiveIterator(data, 1, true);

  map.set(data, rootNode);

  return promiseFor(function(iterator) {
      // I don't save current state here :)
      return !iterator.next().done;
    }, function(iterator) {
     // I have iterator and it's current state :)
      var currentState = iterator.getCurrentState(),
            parentNode = map.get(currentState.parent),
            node       = currentState.node;

      return getNodePromiseValue(node, currentState.path, iterator)
        .then(function(cleanNode) {
          parentNode[currentState.key] = cleanNode;
          map.set(node, cleanNode);
          return iterator;
        });
    }, iterator)
    .then(function() {
      map.clear();
      return rootNode;
    });
}

[nervgh]

@amelon , thanks. Contribution is welcome (src + test).

[amelon]

@nervgh, do you accept I rename getState to something like buildState and I use getState as the state getter ?

[nervgh]

Could you add method to get the current state? https://github.com/nervgh/recursive-iterator/issues/3#issue-111152635

Please, add only the RecursiveIterator#getCurrentState() method. If you rename the RecursiveIterator#getState() method then backward compatibility will be broken.