I am trying to improve the time complexity and quality of the code snippet below. I am iterating through one array to check if the element this array exists in the object, should this be true it should return the name matching the element id in the object. how can I do this without having a nested loop? Can someone tell me what I can do to make this algo better, please?
Thank you all in advance.
let genres = [28, 12, 878];
data = {
genres: [
{
id: 28,
name: 'Action',
},
{
id: 12,
name: 'Adventure',
},
{
id: 16,
name: 'Animation',
},
{
id: 35,
name: 'Comedy',
},
{
id: 80,
name: 'Crime',
},
{
id: 99,
name: 'Documentary',
},
{
id: 18,
name: 'Drama',
},
{
id: 10751,
name: 'Family',
},
{
id: 14,
name: 'Fantasy',
},
{
id: 36,
name: 'History',
},
{
id: 27,
name: 'Horror',
},
{
id: 10402,
name: 'Music',
},
{
id: 9648,
name: 'Mystery',
},
{
id: 10749,
name: 'Romance',
},
{
id: 878,
name: 'Science Fiction',
},
{
id: 10770,
name: 'TV Movie',
},
{
id: 53,
name: 'Thriller',
},
{
id: 10752,
name: 'War',
},
{
id: 37,
name: 'Western',
},
],
};
const getGenreName = () => {
let result = [];
for (let genre of data.genres) {
//console.log("genre", genre.name)
for (let id of genres) {
//console.log('id',genres[i])
if (id === genre.id) result.push(genre.name);
}
}
console.log(result);
};
getGenreName();
CodePudding user response：
You can use reduce and includes as others have already shown. This will make the code a bit cleaner, but not change the overall runtime complexity. To improve runtime complexity you may need to use a different data structure.
For instance instead of
let genres = [1,2,3,4];
as a simple array, you could use a Set, which has a better lookup performance.
let genres = new Set([1,2,3,4]);
Then you can use this as follows
let result = data.genres
.filter(g => genres.has(g.id))
.map(g => g.name);
and won't need any explict for loops
CodePudding user response：
The simplest improvement would probably be converting genres to a Set https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Set
and use the has method to check if each id in the data is a member of the set of chosen genres.
You can also convert the data to a map with the ids as the keys in order to look up by id quickly instead of looping, but that is only faster if the data is reused many times.
CodePudding user response：
JavaScript #reduce in the example outlined below would have O(n) time complexity. This only loops through the array once. We could use filter, and map but it would result in us having to loop through the array twice.
const getGenreName = () => {
const genreSet = new Set(genres);
return data.genres.reduce((accumulator, { id, name }) => {
if (genreSet.has(id)) accumulator.push(name);
return accumulator;
}, []);
};
console.log(getGenreName()); // [ 'Action', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction' ]
We are initializing the reducer to start with the array [], or an empty array, and then checking to see if the genre property of the object is included in the genres array, if it isn't, return the accumulator, if it is, append it to the end of the accumulator and return it.
CodePudding user response：
You wanted this in one loop, so here it is:
let result = [];
data.genres.forEach(function (e) {
if (genres.includes(e.id)) result.push(e.name);
});
console.log(result);
In case you were wondering about forEach, here's a very good reference: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_foreach.asp
CodePudding user response：
The current time complexity is O(MN) where M is the length of data.genres and N is the length of genres.
Time complexity in JavaScript depends on which engine you use, but in most cases you can use a Map to reduce this time complexity to O(max{N,M}):
const getGenreName = () => {
const dataGenresMap = new Map( // O(M)
data.genres.map(({id,...params}) => [id,params]) // O(M)
)
let result = []
for (let id of genres) { // O(N)
if (dataGenresMap.has(id)) result.push(dataGenresMap.get(id).name) // O(1)
}
console.log(result)
}
CodePudding user response：
If you might be doing this more than once then I'd recommend using a Map. By creating a hash map, retrieving genre names per id is much more performant.
let genres = [28, 12, 878];
data = {
genres: [
{
id: 28,
name: 'Action',
},
{
id: 12,
name: 'Adventure',
},
{
id: 16,
name: 'Animation',
},
{
id: 35,
name: 'Comedy',
},
{
id: 80,
name: 'Crime',
},
{
id: 99,
name: 'Documentary',
},
{
id: 18,
name: 'Drama',
},
{
id: 10751,
name: 'Family',
},
{
id: 14,
name: 'Fantasy',
},
{
id: 36,
name: 'History',
},
{
id: 27,
name: 'Horror',
},
{
id: 10402,
name: 'Music',
},
{
id: 9648,
name: 'Mystery',
},
{
id: 10749,
name: 'Romance',
},
{
id: 878,
name: 'Science Fiction',
},
{
id: 10770,
name: 'TV Movie',
},
{
id: 53,
name: 'Thriller',
},
{
id: 10752,
name: 'War',
},
{
id: 37,
name: 'Western',
},
],
};
const genreById = new Map ();
data.genres.forEach(({id, name}) => genreById.set(id, name));
const pushMapValueIfTruthy = map => array => key => {
const val = map.get(key);
if (val) {
array.push(val);
}
};
/** function that takes an array, then id, and pushes corresponding name (if exists) into the array. */
const pushGenreNaneIfExists = pushMapValueIfTruthy(genreById);
const getGenreNames = (ids) => {
result = [];
ids.forEach(pushGenreNaneIfExists(result));
return result;
};
console.log(getGenreNames(genres));
CodePudding user response：
I think this is the simplest way to achieve the same result as yours.
const getGenreName = () =>
data.genres.filter((genre) => genres.includes(genre.id)).map((m) => m.name);
console.log(getGenreName());