Well, you could just manipulate this[0], this[1], etc. directly - but it's
strongly preferred that you return the new result with pushStack (as you've
done) since that conforms with the typical way of constructing jQuery
methods and plugins.
--John
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, jeanph01 <jeanp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm creating a jquery plugin that alter an object to remove duplicates
> in it. My problem is that a variable that access the old selector
> result does not contain the same elements that it would have contained
> if it would have been executed after the duplicates removal.
> To illustrate :
>
> var v = $('div); // 150 objects
> v.removeDuplicate(); // remove 10 duplicates
> // here v still point to 150 objects
>
>
>
> Here is my plugin :
>
> jQuery.fn.__sort = function() {
> return this.pushStack([].sort.apply(this, arguments), []);
> };
>
> jQuery.fn.sort = function(func) {
> function internalSort(a,b){
> var compA = $(a).text();
> var compB = $(b).text();
> return (compA <> compB) ? 1 : 0;
> }
> if (!$.isFunction(func)) {
> func = internalSort;
> }
> return this.__sort(func);
> };
>
> jQuery.fn.removeDuplicate = function() {
> var that = $(this).sort();
>
> $(this).each(function() {
> var pos = that.index($(this));
> var next = that.eq(pos+1);
> var eq = (next.text() === $(this).text());
>
> if (eq) { next.remove();}
> });
>
> // enable chaining, updating selector
> return $($(this).selector);
> };
>
>
> The only solution I found is to return $(this) with an updated
> selector. But I would have had to remember to update the content of my
> variable before calling the plugin.
> ex:
> v = v.removeDuplicates();
>
> Can I update $(this) from within removeDuplicate() ??
>
> Thank you
>
> note: I posted this on the jQuery Plugins discussion put it seems
> dead, or full of spam.
> >
>
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