Monday, 28 May 2018

Use an IIFE approach and pass a variable from one file to another

One of my previous questions was how to organize the code between multiple .js files. Now I have a problem.

I have a map in d3.js divided by countries. When the user double-clicks on a country, I would like to pass a variable to another js file.

This is my html file, index.hbs:

<html lang='en'>
    <head>
        <meta charset='utf-8'>
        <script src='https://d3js.org/d3.v5.js' charset='utf-8'></script>
        <script src='https://d3js.org/topojson.v2.min.js'></script>
        <script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js'></script>

        <link href='/css/all.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id='map'></div>

        <script> 
            var viewData = {};  
            viewData.nuts0 = JSON.parse(''.replace(/&quot;/g, '"').replace(/&lt;/, ''));
            viewData.CONFIG = JSON.parse(''.replace(/&quot;/g, '"').replace(/&lt;/, '')); 
        </script>

        <script src='/script/map.js' rel='script'/></script>
        <script src='/script/other.js' rel='script'/></script>
    </body>
</html>

map.js:

var NAME=(function map() {

    var my = {};

    var CONFIG = viewData.CONFIG;
    var nuts0 = viewData.nuts0;

    // paths
    var countries;

    // width and height of svg map container
    var width = CONFIG.bubbleMap.width;
    var height = CONFIG.bubbleMap.height;

    // to check if user clicks or double click
    var dblclick_timer = false;

    // create Hammer projection
    var projectionCurrent = d3.geoHammer() 
        .scale(1) 
        .translate([width/2, height/2]); 

    var projectionBase = d3.geoHammer()
        .scale(1) 
        .translate([width/2, height/2]);

    // creates a new geographic path generator with the default settings. If projection is specified, sets the current projection
    var path = d3.geoPath().projection(projectionCurrent);

    // creates the svg element that contains the map
    var map = d3.select('#map');

    var mapSvg = map.append('svg')
        .attr('id', 'map-svg')
        .attr('width', width)
        .attr('height', height);

    var mapSvgGCountry = mapSvg.append('g').attr('id', 'nuts0');

    countries = topojson.feature(nuts0, nuts0.objects.nuts0);
    projectionCurrent.fitSize([width, height], countries);

    var mapSvgGCountryPath = mapSvgGCountry.selectAll('path')
        .data(countries.features)
        .enter()
        .append('path');

    mapSvgGCountryPath.attr('class', 'country')
        .attr('fill', 'tomato')
        .style('stroke', 'white')
        .style('stroke-width', 1) 
        .attr('d', path)
        .attr('id', function(c) {
            return 'country' + c.properties.nuts_id;
        })
        .on('click', clickOrDoubleCountry);

    function clickOrDoubleCountry(d, i) {
        if(dblclick_timer) { // double click
            clearTimeout(dblclick_timer);
            dblclick_timer = false;
            my.countryDoubleClicked = d.country; // <-- variable to pass
        }
        else { // single click
            dblclick_timer = setTimeout(function() {
                dblclick_timer = false;
            }, 250)
        } 
    } 

    return my;

}());

other.js:

(function other(NAME) {
    console.log('my:', NAME.my); // undefined
    console.log('my:', NAME.countryDoubleClicked); // undefined
})(NAME);

I would like to be able to read the my object created in map.js in the other.js file and then be able to access the my.countryDoubleClicked variable from other.js.

This code doesn't work, I get TypeError: NAME.my is undefined.



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