feat: add ignoreArrayOrder option to getListDiff (#23)

README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ This library compares two arrays or objects and returns a full diff of their dif
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 ## WHY YOU SHOULD USE THIS LIBRARY
 
 All other existing solutions return a strange diff format that often requires additional parsing. They are also limited to object comparison. 👎
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ All other existing solutions return a strange diff format that often requires ad
 
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@@ -235,11 +233,13 @@ You can add a third `options` parameter to `getListDiff`.
 {
   showOnly?: ("added" | "deleted" | "moved" | "updated" | "equal")[], // [] by default
   referenceProperty?: string; // "" by default
+  ignoreArrayOrder?: boolean // false by default,
 }
 ```
 
 - `showOnly` gives you the option to return only the values whose status you are interested in (e.g. `["added", "equal"]`).
 - `referenceProperty` will consider an object to be updated instead of added or deleted if one of its properties remains stable, such as its `id`. This option has no effect on other datatypes.
+- `ignoreArrayOrder`: if set to `true`, `["hello", "world"]` and `["world", "hello"]` will be treated as `equal`, because the two arrays have the same value, just not in the same order.
 
 ### isEqual()
 

package.json

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsup --dts --format esm,cjs",
     "publish": "npm publish --access=public",
-    "test": "jest"
+    "test": "jest",
+    "tsc": "tsc --noEmit"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/preset-env": "^7.23.8",

src/list-diff.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-import {
-  LIST_STATUS,
-  ListData,
-  ListDiff,
-  ListDiffStatus,
-  ListOptions,
-} from "./model";
+import { LIST_STATUS, ListDiff, ListDiffStatus, ListOptions } from "./model";
 import { isEqual, isObject } from "./utils";
 
 function getLeanDiff(
@@ -72,6 +66,7 @@ export const getListDiff = <T>(
     showOnly: [],
     referenceProperty: undefined,
     considerMoveAsUpdate: false,
+    ignoreArrayOrder: false,
   }
 ): ListDiff => {
   if (!prevList && !nextList) {
@@ -110,7 +105,7 @@ export const getListDiff = <T>(
       prevIndexMatches.push(prevIndex);
     }
     const indexDiff = prevIndex === -1 ? null : i - prevIndex;
-    if (indexDiff === 0) {
+    if (indexDiff === 0 || options.ignoreArrayOrder) {
       let nextStatus = LIST_STATUS.EQUAL;
       if (isReferencedObject(nextValue, options.referenceProperty)) {
         if (!isEqual(prevList[prevIndex], nextValue)) {

src/model.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export type ListOptions = {
   showOnly?: Array<ListStatusTuple[number]>;
   referenceProperty?: string;
   considerMoveAsUpdate?: boolean;
+  ignoreArrayOrder?: boolean;
 };
 
 export type ListDiff = {

test/list-diff.test.ts

@@ -697,4 +697,95 @@ describe("getListDiff", () => {
       ],
     });
   });
+  it("consider moved values as equal if they have not changed and ignoreArrayOrder option is true", () => {
+    expect(
+      getListDiff(
+        [
+          { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+          { id: 1, name: "joe", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+        ],
+        [
+          { id: 1, name: "joe", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+          { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+        ],
+        {
+          ignoreArrayOrder: true,
+        }
+      )
+    ).toStrictEqual({
+      type: "list",
+      status: "equal",
+      diff: [
+        {
+          value: { id: 1, name: "joe", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          prevIndex: 1,
+          newIndex: 0,
+          indexDiff: -1,
+          status: "equal",
+        },
+        {
+          value: { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+          prevIndex: 2,
+          newIndex: 1,
+          indexDiff: -1,
+          status: "equal",
+        },
+        {
+          value: { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+          prevIndex: 0,
+          newIndex: 2,
+          indexDiff: 2,
+          status: "equal",
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+  });
+  it("consider moved values as updated if they have changed and ignoreArrayOrder option is true", () => {
+    expect(
+      getListDiff(
+        [
+          { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+          { id: 1, name: "joseph", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+        ],
+        [
+          { id: 1, name: "joe", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+          { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+        ],
+        {
+          ignoreArrayOrder: true,
+          referenceProperty: "id",
+        }
+      )
+    ).toStrictEqual({
+      type: "list",
+      status: "updated",
+      diff: [
+        {
+          value: { id: 1, name: "joe", hobbies: ["golf", "fishing"] },
+          prevIndex: 1,
+          newIndex: 0,
+          indexDiff: -1,
+          status: "updated",
+        },
+        {
+          value: { id: 2, name: "jack", hobbies: ["coding"] },
+          prevIndex: 2,
+          newIndex: 1,
+          indexDiff: -1,
+          status: "equal",
+        },
+        {
+          value: { id: 3, name: "nina", hobbies: ["swiming"] },
+          prevIndex: 0,
+          newIndex: 2,
+          indexDiff: 2,
+          status: "equal",
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+  });
 });