Repository
contacts
Collection
friends
coworkers
contacts
Repository
Repository
var Repository = function(items) {
this.items = items || [];
}
Repository.prototype.get = function(id) {
for (var i=0,len=this.items.length; i<len; i++) {
if (items[i].id === id) {
return this.items[i];
}
}
}
Repository.prototype.add = function(item) {
if (toString.call(item) === "[object Array]") {
this.items.concat(item);
}
else {
this.items.push(item);
}
}
Repository.prototype.remove = function(id) {
for (var i=0,len=this.items.length; i<len; i++) {
if (items[i].id === id) {
this.removeIndex(i);
}
}
}
Repository.prototype.removeIndex = function(index) {
if (items[index]) {
if (/* items[i] has more than 1 reference to it */) {
// Only remove item from repository if nothing else references it
this.items.splice(index,1);
return;
}
}
}
remove
Collection
var Collection = function(repo,items) {
this.repo = repo;
this.items = items || [];
}
Collection.prototype.remove = function(id) {
for (var i=0,len=this.items.length; i<len; i++) {
if (items[i].id === id) {
// Remove object from this collection
this.items.splice(i,1);
// Tell repo to remove it (only if no other references to it)
repo.removeIndxe(i);
return;
}
}
}
Repository
Collection
var contactRepo = new Repository([
{id: 1, name: "Joe"},
{id: 2, name: "Jane"},
{id: 3, name: "Tom"},
{id: 4, name: "Jack"},
{id: 5, name: "Sue"}
]);
var friends = new Collection(
contactRepo,
[
contactRepo.get(2),
contactRepo.get(4)
]
);
var coworkers = new Collection(
contactRepo,
[
contactRepo.get(1),
contactRepo.get(2),
contactRepo.get(5)
]
);
contactRepo.items; // contains item ids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
friends.items; // contains item ids 2, 4
coworkers.items; // contains item ids 1, 2, 5
coworkers.remove(2);
contactRepo.items; // contains item ids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
friends.items; // contains item ids 2, 4
coworkers.items; // contains item ids 1, 5
friends.remove(4);
contactRepo.items; // contains item ids 1, 2, 3, 5
friends.items; // contains item ids 2
coworkers.items; // contains item ids 1, 5
coworkers.remove(2)
friends.items
friends.remove(4)
contactRepo
No, no, no, no; and yes, if you really need to count references you will have to do it manually. JS has no interface to this, GC, or weak references.
Whilst you could implement a manual reference-counted object list, it's questionable whether all the extra overhead (in performance terms but more importantly code complexity) is worth it.
In your example code it would seem simpler to forget the Repository
, use a plain Array
for your lists, and let standard garbage collection take care of dropping unused people. If you needed to get a list of all people in use, you'd just concat
the friends
and coworkers
lists (and sort/uniquify them if you needed to).