filebrowser-durandal-widget/lib/knockout/src/binding/editDetection/compareArrays.js

// Go through the items that have been added and deleted and try to find matches between them.
ko.utils.findMovesInArrayComparison = function (left, right, limitFailedCompares) {
    if (left.length && right.length) {
        var failedCompares, l, r, leftItem, rightItem;
        for (failedCompares = l = 0; (!limitFailedCompares || failedCompares < limitFailedCompares) && (leftItem = left[l]); ++l) {
            for (r = 0; rightItem = right[r]; ++r) {
                if (leftItem['value'] === rightItem['value']) {
                    leftItem['moved'] = rightItem['index'];
                    rightItem['moved'] = leftItem['index'];
                    right.splice(r, 1);         // This item is marked as moved; so remove it from right list
                    failedCompares = r = 0;     // Reset failed compares count because we're checking for consecutive failures
                    break;
                }
            }
            failedCompares += r;
        }
    }
};

ko.utils.compareArrays = (function () {
    var statusNotInOld = 'added', statusNotInNew = 'deleted';

    // Simple calculation based on Levenshtein distance.
    function compareArrays(oldArray, newArray, options) {
        // For backward compatibility, if the third arg is actually a bool, interpret
        // it as the old parameter 'dontLimitMoves'. Newer code should use { dontLimitMoves: true }.
        options = (typeof options === 'boolean') ? { 'dontLimitMoves': options } : (options || {});
        oldArray = oldArray || [];
        newArray = newArray || [];

        if (oldArray.length <= newArray.length)
            return compareSmallArrayToBigArray(oldArray, newArray, statusNotInOld, statusNotInNew, options);
        else
            return compareSmallArrayToBigArray(newArray, oldArray, statusNotInNew, statusNotInOld, options);
    }

    function compareSmallArrayToBigArray(smlArray, bigArray, statusNotInSml, statusNotInBig, options) {
        var myMin = Math.min,
            myMax = Math.max,
            editDistanceMatrix = [],
            smlIndex, smlIndexMax = smlArray.length,
            bigIndex, bigIndexMax = bigArray.length,
            compareRange = (bigIndexMax - smlIndexMax) || 1,
            maxDistance = smlIndexMax + bigIndexMax + 1,
            thisRow, lastRow,
            bigIndexMaxForRow, bigIndexMinForRow;

        for (smlIndex = 0; smlIndex <= smlIndexMax; smlIndex++) {
            lastRow = thisRow;
            editDistanceMatrix.push(thisRow = []);
            bigIndexMaxForRow = myMin(bigIndexMax, smlIndex + compareRange);
            bigIndexMinForRow = myMax(0, smlIndex - 1);
            for (bigIndex = bigIndexMinForRow; bigIndex <= bigIndexMaxForRow; bigIndex++) {
                if (!bigIndex)
                    thisRow[bigIndex] = smlIndex + 1;
                else if (!smlIndex)  // Top row - transform empty array into new array via additions
                    thisRow[bigIndex] = bigIndex + 1;
                else if (smlArray[smlIndex - 1] === bigArray[bigIndex - 1])
                    thisRow[bigIndex] = lastRow[bigIndex - 1];                  // copy value (no edit)
                else {
                    var northDistance = lastRow[bigIndex] || maxDistance;       // not in big (deletion)
                    var westDistance = thisRow[bigIndex - 1] || maxDistance;    // not in small (addition)
                    thisRow[bigIndex] = myMin(northDistance, westDistance) + 1;
                }
            }
        }

        var editScript = [], meMinusOne, notInSml = [], notInBig = [];
        for (smlIndex = smlIndexMax, bigIndex = bigIndexMax; smlIndex || bigIndex;) {
            meMinusOne = editDistanceMatrix[smlIndex][bigIndex] - 1;
            if (bigIndex && meMinusOne === editDistanceMatrix[smlIndex][bigIndex-1]) {
                notInSml.push(editScript[editScript.length] = {     // added
                    'status': statusNotInSml,
                    'value': bigArray[--bigIndex],
                    'index': bigIndex });
            } else if (smlIndex && meMinusOne === editDistanceMatrix[smlIndex - 1][bigIndex]) {
                notInBig.push(editScript[editScript.length] = {     // deleted
                    'status': statusNotInBig,
                    'value': smlArray[--smlIndex],
                    'index': smlIndex });
            } else {
                --bigIndex;
                --smlIndex;
                if (!options['sparse']) {
                    editScript.push({
                        'status': "retained",
                        'value': bigArray[bigIndex] });
                }
            }
        }

        // Set a limit on the number of consecutive non-matching comparisons; having it a multiple of
        // smlIndexMax keeps the time complexity of this algorithm linear.
        ko.utils.findMovesInArrayComparison(notInSml, notInBig, smlIndexMax * 10);

        return editScript.reverse();
    }

    return compareArrays;
})();

ko.exportSymbol('utils.compareArrays', ko.utils.compareArrays);