exports.eq_array = (a, b, eq) => { if (a === b) { // either both are undefined, or they // are referentially equal return true; } if (a === undefined || b === undefined) { return false; } if (a.length !== b.length) { return false; } return a.every((item, i) => eq(item, b[i])); }; exports.ul = (opts) => { return { tag_name: 'ul', opts: opts, }; }; exports.render_tag = (tag) => { /* This renders a tag into a string. It will automatically escape attributes, but it's your responsibility to make sure keyed_nodes provide a `render` method that escapes HTML properly. (One option is to use templates.) Do NOT call this method directly, except for testing. The vdom scheme expects you to use the `update` method. */ const opts = tag.opts; const tag_name = tag.tag_name; const attr_str = opts.attrs.map(attr => ' ' + attr[0] + '="' + util.escape_html(attr[1]) + '"').join(''); const start_tag = '<' + tag_name + attr_str + '>'; const end_tag = ''; if (opts.keyed_nodes === undefined) { blueslip.error("We need keyed_nodes to render innards."); return; } const innards = opts.keyed_nodes.map(node => node.render()).join('\n'); return start_tag + '\n' + innards + '\n' + end_tag; }; exports.update = (replace_content, find, new_dom, old_dom) => { /* The update method allows you to continually update a "virtual" representation of your DOM, and then this method actually updates the real DOM using jQuery. The caller will pass in a method called `replace_content` that will replace the entire html and a method called `find` to find the existing DOM for more surgical updates. The first "update" will be more like a create, because your `old_dom` should be undefined. After that initial call, it is important that you always pass in a correct value of `old_dom`; otherwise, things will be incredibly confusing. The basic scheme here is simple: 1) If old_dom is undefined, we render everything for the first time. 2) If the keys of your new children are no longer the same order as the old children, then we just render everything anew. (We may refine this in the future.) 3) If your key structure remains the same, then we update your child nodes on a child-by-child basis, and we avoid updates where the data had remained the same. The key to making this all work is that `new_dom` should include a `keyed_nodes` option where each `keyed_node` has a `key` and supports these methods: eq - can compare itself to similar nodes for data equality render - can create an HTML representation of itself The `new_dom` should generally be created with something like `vdom.ul`, which will set a tag field internally and which will want options like `attrs` for attributes. For examples of creating vdom objects, look at `pm_list_dom.js`. */ function do_full_update() { const rendered_dom = exports.render_tag(new_dom); replace_content(rendered_dom); } if (old_dom === undefined) { do_full_update(); return; } const new_opts = new_dom.opts; const old_opts = old_dom.opts; if (new_opts.keyed_nodes === undefined) { // We generally want to use vdom on lists, and // adding keys for childrens lets us avoid unnecessary // redraws (or lets us know we should just rebuild // the dom). blueslip.error("We need keyed_nodes for updates."); return; } const same_structure = exports.eq_array( new_opts.keyed_nodes, old_opts.keyed_nodes, (a, b) => a.key === b.key ); if (!same_structure) { /* We could do something smarter like detecting row moves, but it's overkill for small lists. */ do_full_update(); return; } /* DO "QUICK" UPDATES: We've gotten this far, so we know we have the same overall structure for our parent tag, and the only thing left to do with our child nodes is to possibly update them in place (via jQuery). We will only update nodes whose data has changed. */ const child_elems = find().children(); for (const [i, new_node] of new_opts.keyed_nodes.entries()) { const old_node = old_opts.keyed_nodes[i]; if (new_node.eq(old_node)) { continue; } const rendered_dom = new_node.render(); child_elems.eq(i).replaceWith(rendered_dom); } exports.update_attrs( find(), new_opts.attrs, old_opts.attrs ); }; exports.update_attrs = (elem, new_attrs, old_attrs) => { const new_dict = new Map(new_attrs); const old_dict = new Map(old_attrs); for (const [k, v] of new_attrs) { if (v !== old_dict.get(k)) { elem.attr(k, v); } } for (const [k] of old_attrs) { if (!new_dict.has(k)) { elem.removeAttr(k); } } }; window.vdom = exports;