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Array Overrides

Code in this post can be obsolete, however, principles and theory may still apply.
On the way of development of my project I came to need to have set methods for javascript Array object especially intersection. Googling has shown up some but they were not LGPL, the licence what I need, so I’ve written them.

The following override contains:

  • Ext message box input type configuration
  • Conditional Ext.overrideIf
  • New Array methods:
    • copy – one dimensional copy method
    • indexOf – index of a value within the array. New browsers may already implement this method, therefore conditional override.
    • lastIndexOf – last index of a value within the array. May be already implemented by browser too.
    • intersect – returns intersection of arrays, for example: [1,3,5,7].intersect([2,3,8,7,5]) returns [3,5,7]
    • union – returns union of arrays, for example: [1,3,5,7].union([2,3,8,7,5]) returns [1,2,3,5,7,8]
    • unique – removes duplicate values from the array and returns result as new array
  • Ext.ux.clone – deep object or array cloning function

Overrides code:

// vim: ts=4:sw=4:nu:fdc=4:nospell
/**
 * Ext.ux.Overrides
 *
 * This files contains various fixes and/or overridesds:
 *
 * 1. inputType selection for Ext.Msg.show
 * 2. Ext.overrideIf conditional override
 * 3. Array methods: indexOf, lastIndexOf, copy, unique, intersect, union
 * 4. Cloning function
 *
 * @author  Ing. Jozef Sakalos
 * @version $Id: Ext.ux.Overrides.js 158 2008-04-10 00:03:18Z jozo $
 * @date    13. March 2008
 *
 * @license Ext.ux.Overrides is licensed under the terms of
 * the Open Source LGPL 3.0 license.  Commercial use is permitted 
 * to the extent that the code/component(s) do NOT become part of 
 * another Open Source or Commercially licensed development library or 
 * toolkit without explicit permission.
 * 
 * License details: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
 */

/*global Ext */

// {{{
// Ext.Msg input type and firefox cursor bug fix
Ext.Msg.show = Ext.Msg.show.createInterceptor(function(config) {
    // get inputType
    var inputType = config.inputType || 'text';

    // get dialog content element
    var content = Ext.Msg.getDialog().body.child('div.ext-mb-content');

    // set inputType
    var input = content.child('input');
    if(input) {
        input.set({type:inputType});    
    }

    // this seems to be already handled in Ext
    // fix firefox cursor bug
//    var overflow = config.cursorFix ? 'auto' : 'hidden';
//    if(Ext.isGecko) {
//        content.applyStyles({overflow:overflow});
//    }
}, Ext.Msg);
// }}}
// {{{
// conditional override
/**
 * Same as Ext.override but overrides only if 
 * method doesn not exist in target class
 */
Ext.overrideIf = function(origclass, overrides) {
    if(overrides) {
        var p = origclass.prototype;
        for(var method in overrides) {
            if(!p[method]) {
                p[method] = overrides[method];
            }
        }
    }
};
// }}}
// {{{
// methods for Array object
Ext.overrideIf(Array, {

    // {{{
    /**
     * One dimensional copy
     * @return {Array} New array that is copy of this
     */
     copy:function() {
        var a = [];
        for(var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++) {
            a.push(this[i]);
        }
        return a;
    } // eo function copy
    // }}}
    // {{{
    /**
     * @return {Integer} index of v or -1 if not found
     * @param {Mixed} v Value to find indexOf
     * @param {Integer} b Starting index
     */
    ,indexOf:function(v, b) {
        for(var i = +b || 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++) {
            if(this[i] === v) { 
                return i; 
            }
        }
        return -1;
    } // eo function indexOf
    // }}}
    // {{{
    /**
     * @return {Array} intersection of this and passed arguments
     */
    ,intersect:function() {
        if(!arguments.length) {
            return [];
        }
        var a1 = this, a2, a;
        for(var k = 0, ac = arguments.length; k < ac; k++) {
            a = [];
            a2 = arguments[k] || [];
            for(var i = 0, l = a1.length; i < l; i++) {
                if(-1  b) {
            if(this[i] === v) { 
                return i; 
            }
        }
        return -1;
    } // eof function lastIndexOf
    // }}}
    // {{{
    /**
     * @return {Array} New array that is union of this and passed arguments
     */
    ,union:function() {
        var a = this.copy(), a1;
        for(var k = 0, ac = arguments.length; k < ac; k++) {
            a1 = arguments[k] || [];
            for(var i = 0, l = a1.length; i < l; i++) {
                a.push(a1[i]);
            }
        }
        return a.unique();
    } // eo function union
    // }}}
    // {{{
    /**
     * Removes duplicates from array
     * @return {Array} new array with duplicates removed
     */
    ,unique:function() {
        var a = [], i, l = this.length;
        for(i = 0; i < l; i++) {
            if(a.indexOf(this[i]) < 0) { 
                a.push(this[i]); 
            }
        }
        return a;
    } // eo function unique
    // }}}

});
// }}}
// {{{
// object and array cloning function
/**
 * Clone Function
 * @return {Object/Array} Deep clone of an object or an array
 */
Ext.ux.clone = function(o) {
    if(!o || 'object' !== typeof o) {
        return o;
    }
    var c = 'function' === typeof o.pop ? [] : {};
    var p, v;
    for(p in o) {
        if(o.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
            v = o[p];
            if(v && 'object' === typeof v) {
                c[p] = Ext.ux.clone(v);
            }
            else {
                c[p] = v;
            }
        }
    }
    return c;
}; // eo function clone
// }}}

// eof
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