Question

I have many levels of nested comments inside my commentsArray

(This is pulled in from an API and cannot be changed)

commentsArray = [
    {
        author: "jeff"
        replies: [
            {
                author: "jeff"
                replies: [
                    {
                        author: "simon"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                author: "simon"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        author: "simon"
    }
]

I also have a recursive function, dialogueParse, that calls itself if the object in question has “replies“

dialogueParse = (comment) ->
    for child in comment
        if child.author is "simon"
            console.log "Simon was found.."

        if child.replies
            dialogueParse child

However, this code doesn’t seem to work correctly. After I call the function initially:

dialogueParse commentsArray

..for some reason, only the one located on the first level (at the end of the array) is found.

“simon” is listed as an author in 3 different places.

I’ve been working on this for several hours and getting nowhere. Any help is more than appreciated! 🙂

Answer 1

Shouldn’t you be passing child.replies as the argument in the recursion?

As in:

dialogueParse = (comment) ->
    for child in comment
        if child.author is "simon"
            console.log "Simon was found.."

        if child.replies
            dialogueParse child.replies