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Edit File: remove-path.js

import { filterOutParams } from './filter-out-params.js';
import { get } from './get.js';
import { set } from './set.js';
import { pathToParts } from './path-to-parts.js';
import { DELIMITER } from './constants.js';

/**
 * @load ./remove-path.doc.md
 * @memberof module:flat
 * @param {FlattenParams} params
 * @param {...string} properties
 * @returns {FlattenParams}
 */
const removePath = (params, path) => {
  // by default simply filter out elements from the object
  let filtered = filterOutParams(params, path);

// reverse means that we iterate from the closes parent
  const parentPaths = pathToParts(path).reverse();

// but if one of the parent is an array
  parentPaths.find((parentPath, parentIndex) => {
    const parent = get(params, parentPath);
    if (Array.isArray(parent)) {
      // previous element is stringified index like 'property.1'
      const previousPaths = parentPaths[parentIndex - 1].split(DELIMITER);
      // so this is the index: 1
      const previousPathIndex = previousPaths[previousPaths.length - 1];
      parent.splice(+previousPathIndex, 1);
      filtered = set(params, parentPath, parent);
      // this works just for the firstly found array item, because in case of removing the last one
      // it leaves `[]` as a value.
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  });
  return filtered;
};
export { removePath };