Seeking for a good method to create arrays out of the history array

Hi,

I currently have different methods implemented to create a certain history array. For example, to get a pure steps array, I do the following:

function createStepsArray(hist, curSteps) {

		var arr = new [8];

		arr = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0];

		arr[0] = curSteps;

		if (null != hist && hist.size() > 0) {

			for (var i = 0; i < hist.size(); ++i) {

        		if (null != hist&& null != hist.steps) {

        			arr[i+1] = hist.steps;

        		}

        	}

        }

    	return arr;

    }



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This works pretty well. Nevertheless, I have to duplicate the code for distance, for stairs, for stepgoal, etc. Is there a more intelligent way to create such an array? I would like to make "steps" a parameter of the function but I don't know if this is possible. Any suggestions?

Former Member over 8 years ago

Is "hist" a dictionnary ? If so hist["steps"] should work. Thus you could pass "steps" as a parameter ?

If histis a class you could possibly pass a method as a parameter and the method would return the correct member ?

topcaser over 8 years ago

Thanks for that. I got it:

function createHistArray(hist, current, label) {

		var arr = new [8];

		arr = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0];

		arr[0] = current;

		if (null != hist && hist.size() > 0) {

			for (var i = 0; i < hist.size(); ++i) {

        		if (null != hist&& null != hist[label]) {

        			arr[i+1] = hist[label];

        		}

        	}

        }

    	return arr;

    }

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And the call:

stepsArr    = createHistArray(hist, Amo.getInfo().steps, :steps);





Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.