var _; //globals /* This section uses a functional extension known as Underscore.js - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ "Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux." */ describe("About Higher Order Functions", function () { it("should use filter to return array items that meet a criteria", function () { var numbers = [1,2,3]; var odd = _(numbers).filter(function (x) { return x % 2 !== 0 }); expect(odd).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); expect(odd.length).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); expect(numbers.length).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use 'map' to transform each element", function () { var numbers = [1, 2, 3]; var numbersPlus1 = _(numbers).map(function(x) { return x + 1 }); expect(numbersPlus1).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); expect(numbers).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use 'reduce' to update the same result on each iteration", function () { var numbers = [1, 2, 3]; var reduction = _(numbers).reduce( function(/* result from last call */ memo, /* current */ x) { return memo + x }, /* initial */ 0); expect(reduction).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); expect(numbers).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use 'forEach' for simple iteration", function () { var numbers = [1,2,3]; var msg = ""; var isEven = function (item) { msg += (item % 2) === 0; }; _(numbers).forEach(isEven); expect(msg).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); expect(numbers).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use 'all' to test whether all items pass condition", function () { var onlyEven = [2,4,6]; var mixedBag = [2,4,5,6]; var isEven = function(x) { return x % 2 === 0 }; expect(_(onlyEven).all(isEven)).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); expect(_(mixedBag).all(isEven)).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use 'any' to test if any items passes condition" , function () { var onlyEven = [2,4,6]; var mixedBag = [2,4,5,6]; var isEven = function(x) { return x % 2 === 0 }; expect(_(onlyEven).any(isEven)).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); expect(_(mixedBag).any(isEven)).toBe(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use range to generate an array", function() { expect(_.range(3)).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); expect(_.range(1, 4)).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); expect(_.range(0, -4, -1)).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use flatten to make nested arrays easy to work with", function() { expect(_([ [1, 2], [3, 4] ]).flatten()).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); it("should use chain() ... .value() to use multiple higher order functions", function() { var result = _([ [0, 1], 2 ]).chain() .flatten() .map(function(x) { return x+1 } ) .reduce(function (sum, x) { return sum + x }) .value(); expect(result).toEqual(FILL_ME_IN); }); });