jdsutherland
Modern Front-End Development for Rails: B7 pg 164 server JSON ids are numbers causing javascript Array#includes to always return false
After completing the section Using Data in Stimulus (ends pg 167), I noticed something wrong with Ajax updates. After running the rake task to sell out concerts, things looked fine on initial browser load:
but after Ajax it would change from “Sold Out” to “0 Tickets Remaining”:
The data attributes looked like this:
So concertSoldOutValue was suspiciously being set to false. The issue is that Array#includes is called with a string on an array of numbers (always false):
concertElement.dataset.concertSoldOutValue = soldOutConcertIds.includes(
concertElement.dataset.concertIdValue
)
typeof soldOutConcertIds[0]: number
The ids coming from the server JSON are numbers. One solution is to convert the ids to a string:
class SoldOutConcertsController < ApplicationController
def show
concerts = Concert.includes(:venue, gigs: :band).all
sold_out_concert_ids = concerts
.select(&:sold_out?)
.map(&:id)
.map(&:to_s)
render(json: {sold_out_concert_ids: sold_out_concert_ids})
end
end
Perhaps TypeScript could be leveraged to prevent this kind of bug?
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noelrappin
Author of Modern Front-End Development for Rails
This is a really great catch, I’ll fix it in the next update.
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