n8n/packages/nodes-base/utils/utilities.ts

import { IDisplayOptions, INodeProperties } from 'n8n-workflow';

import { merge } from 'lodash';

/**
 * Creates an array of elements split into groups the length of `size`.
 * If `array` can't be split evenly, the final chunk will be the remaining
 * elements.
 *
 * @param {Array} array The array to process.
 * @param {number} [size=1] The length of each chunk
 * @example
 *
 * chunk(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], 2)
 * // => [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']]
 *
 * chunk(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], 3)
 * // => [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d']]
 */

export function chunk(array: any[], size = 1) {
	const length = array == null ? 0 : array.length;
	if (!length || size < 1) {
		return [];
	}
	let index = 0;
	let resIndex = 0;
	const result = new Array(Math.ceil(length / size));

	while (index < length) {
		result[resIndex++] = array.slice(index, (index += size));
	}
	return result;
}

/**
 * Takes a multidimensional array and converts it to a one-dimensional array.
 *
 * @param {Array} nestedArray The array to be flattened.
 * @example
 *
 * flatten([['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']])
 * // => ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
 *
 */

export function flatten(nestedArray: any[][]) {
	const result = [];

	(function loop(array: any[]) {
		for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
			if (Array.isArray(array[i])) {
				loop(array[i]);
			} else {
				result.push(array[i]);
			}
		}
	})(nestedArray);

	return result;
}

export function updateDisplayOptions(
	displayOptions: IDisplayOptions,
	properties: INodeProperties[],
) {
	return properties.map((nodeProperty) => {
		return {
			...nodeProperty,
			displayOptions: merge({}, nodeProperty.displayOptions, displayOptions),
		};
	});
}