I want to access the value returned from an outer function inside the property of fetch. The value is being logged out but I need to get the value inside fetch in the 'title' property. Please excuse me if it is an irrelevant question, I am new to this. Need a solution or an alternative please.

button.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
function editTodo(e) {
  function filterID() {
    Array.from(todoItem).filter((item) => {
      if (item.getAttribute('id') == todoID) {
        console.log(item.innerHTML);
        return item.innerHTML;
      }
    });
  }      //<<value is being logged out

  fetch(`${url}/${id}`, {
    method: 'PATCH',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ 
      title: filterID(),   //<<need to access here
    }),
  })
    .then((res) => {
        setMessage('Updated');
        return res.json();
    })
    .catch((error) => console.log(error));
}
})

CodePudding user response：

I see a couple of issues:

• You aren't doing anything with the array that filter creates, so the return item.innerHTML; doesn't do anything — the value returned is put in the array you never use. (Traditional functions never do implicit return, and there's no return in your filterID function, just the filter callback.)
• You never call editTodo.
• It sounds from the comments like you have a collection/list of HTML elements and you're trying to find the one that matches todoID and use its innerHTML in the fetch call. If so, that would be a find operation rather than a filter operation.

See comments:

button.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
    // Where is `editTodo` used??
    function editTodo(e) {
        // `todoItem` really should be plural if it"s a collection/list/array
        // Use `find` to find the matching `todo`, and then use `innerHTML` on it
        const todo = Array.from(todoItem).find((item) => item.getAttribute("id") === todoID);
        if (!todo) {
            return; // Not found
        }

        fetch(`${url}/${id}`, {
            method: "PATCH",
            headers: {
                "Content-Type": "application/json",
            },
            body: JSON.stringify({
                title: todo.innerHTML, // ***
            }),
        })
            .then((res) => {
                setMessage("Updated");
                return res.json();
            })
            .catch((error) => console.log(error));
    }
});

Or with a for-of loop on todoItem since both NodeList (from querySelectorAll) and HTMLCollection (from getElementsByXYZ methods) are iterable (like arrays are):

button.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
    // Where is `editTodo` used??
    function editTodo(e) {
        // `todoItem` really should be plural if it"s a collection/list/array
        // Use `find` to find the matching `todo`, and then use `innerHTML` on it
        let todo = null;
        for (const item of todoItem) {
            if (item.getAttribute("id") === todoID) {
                todo = item;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!todo) {
            return; // Not found
        }

        // ...same otherwise...
    }
});