y-map

Map Type for Yjs

Manage map-like data with this shareable map type. You can insert and delete objects in y-map. The objects must either be a custom types, or fulfill the following property: v equals JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(v)) (according to your definition of equality)

Use it!

Retrieve this with bower or npm.

Bower

bower install y-map --save

NPM

npm install y-map --save

Y.Map

Y.Map mimics the behaviour of a javascript Object. You can create, update, and remove properies on this type. Furthermore, you can observe changes on this type as you can observe changes on Javascript Objects with Object.observe - an ECMAScript 7 proposal which is likely to become accepted by the committee. Until then, we have our own implementation.

Reference

• .get(key)
  • Retrieve the value for key
• .set(key, value)
  • Set/update a property
  • You can also insert a type map.set(key, Y.Map)
  • If not a shared type, the value should fulfill the following property: value equals JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(value)) (according to your notion of equality)
• .delete(key)
  • Delete a property
• .keys()
  • Returns all keys for all values
• .observe(observer)
  • The observer is called whenever something on this object changes. Throws add, update, and delete events
  • The event object has the following properties:
    • event.type The type of the event. "add" - a new key-value pair was added, "update" - an existing key-value pair was changed, or "delete" - a key-value pair was deleted)
    • event.name The key of the changed property
    • event.value If event type is either "update" or "add", this property defines the new value of the key-value pair
    • event.object The object on which the event occurred (The object on which .observe(..) was called)
• .observeDeep(function observer(event){..})
  • Same as .observe, but catches events from all children (if they support .observeDeep)
  • event.path specifies the path of the change event
• .observePath(path, observer) deprecated
  • path is an array of property keys
  • observer is when the value under the path is found
  • observer is called when the property under path is set, deleted, or updated
  • returns a function which, if called, removes the observer from the path
• .unobserve(f)
  • Delete an observer

A note on intention preservation

When users create/update/delete the same property concurrently, only one change will prevail. Changes on different properties do not conflict with each other.

A note on time complexities

• .get(key)
  • O(1)
• .set(key, value)
  • O(1)
• .delete(key)
  • O(1)
• Apply a delete operation from another user
  • O(1)
• Apply an update operation from another user (set/update a property)
  • Yjs does not transform against operations that do not conflict with each other.
  • An operation conflicts with another operation if it changes the same property.
  • Overall worst case complexety: O(|conflicts|^)

Changelog

10.0.0

• inserting & retrieving types are synchronous operations
  • I.e. `y.share.map.get('some type') // => returns a type instead of a promise
• relies on Yjs@^12.0.0

License

Yjs is licensed under the MIT License.

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