Removing item from ArrayCollection

[blu3]

If i have an ArrayCollection like this one:

public var myAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{name: 'First, price: '10'}]);
myAC.addItem({name:"Second", price:"20"});

How can i for example remove {name:"First" price:"10"} item from ArrayCollection?

thanks in advance

[Jim Freer]

ArrayCollection is based on ListCollectionView which has a function removeItemAt().

So: myAC.removeItemAt(0);

Jim
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[dr_zeus]

Combine it with getItemIndex() and you should be able to do it.

Please note, however, that you probably need to reference the exact object that you're removing. I'm guessing that the following code will never work:

collection.getItemIndex({name:"First" price:"10"});

Equality checks on the Object type is by reference.

[blu3]

Originally Posted by dr_zeus

Combine it with getItemIndex() and you should be able to do it.

Please note, however, that you probably need to reference the exact object that you're removing. I'm guessing that the following code will never work:

collection.getItemIndex({name:"First" price:"10"});

Equality checks on the Object type is by reference.

You are guessing right dr_zeus, the above code won't work. I can remove object using myAC.removeItemAt(0) if I know it's index but:

myAC.removeItemAt(myAC.getItemIndex({name:"First" price:"10"}));

throws an error.

[dr_zeus]

Right, as I said, you need a reference to the actual item you're removing. Objects are equality checked by reference rather than value.

[blu3]

And how can i reference the object i am going to remove? I mean, i have an ArrayCollection filled with data and i want to remove an item with specific values just like in my example above. How can i reference it if getItemIndex method doesn't work?

[dr_zeus]

Actually, it's not too hard. The ArrayCollection exposes the regular Array it wraps through its "source" property. Array has a filter() method that lets you run a function on every item where you can check for any conditions that you wish. The Array returned by filter() will have only the item reference(s) you need.

[blu3]

You helped me a lot dr_zeus, thank you very much. I really appreciate it.