This is a kind of weird problem. Given the javascript below, I'm expecting the newFunctions object to contain functions that wrap an original object, however it's only running the last action that occurs in the loop. Shouldn't var actionToCall copy a reference to what currentAction is currently looking at, and not change when the loops iterate? I'm stumped here.
var typeArray = {
type1: {
function1: function() {
console.log("this is function 1");
},
function2: function() {
console.log("this is function 2");
}
},
type2: {
somefunction: function() {
console.log("this is some function")
}
},
type3: {
blah: function() {
return;
},
moreBlah: function(something) {
console.log(something);
},
evenMore: function() {
console.log("I'm last!");
}
}
},
index,
typeIndex,
currentType,
actionIndex,
currentAction,
newFunctions = {};
for(typeIndex in typeArray) {
currentType = typeArray[typeIndex];
for(actionIndex in currentType) {
currentAction = currentType[actionIndex];
console.log(currentAction.toString());
newFunctions[actionIndex] = function() {
var actionToCall = currentAction;
console.log("about to run action");
actionToCall.call(this);
console.log("action has been called");
}
}
}
console.log(newFunctions);
for(index in newFunctions) {
(newFunctions[index])();
}