@aappddeevv/dynamics-client-ui/src/Data/Utils.ts

## What is it? A library to help you create great dynamics applications.

/** Misc data management utilities. */

/** Decent string hash. */
export function hash(str: string): number {
    var hash = 5381;
    for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
        const char = str.charCodeAt(i);
        hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) + char; /* hash * 33 + c */
    }
    return hash;
}

/** Clean the id of brackets and lowercase everything. */
export function cleanId(id: string): string {
    if (typeof id === "undefined" || id === null) throw Error(`Unable to clean nil id ${id}`)
    return id.toString().replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase()
}

/** Wrap an id with {} and cap it, if needed. */
export function wrapId(id: string): string {
    return `${cleanId(id).toUpperCase()}`
}

/** Simple normalization of data using a function to obtain the key. */
export function normalize<T,U>(id: (t:T) => string,
                               data: Array<T>,
                               tx: (t:T) => U) : { [id: string]: U}
{
    return data.reduce((accum, t) => {
        accum[id(t)] = tx(t)
        return accum
    }, {})
}

/** Normalize with a key that accessed via a simple key lookup. */
export function normalizeWith<T>(key: string, data: Array<T>): { [id: string]: T} {
    return normalize<T,T>(t => t[key], data, (t:T) => t)
}