Insert list data over the iteration(map) - reactjs

Question

Here I am trying to modify my data over the iteration and send some result to API call.
The API Call receives a request with a structured data format which is
{ list: [{ id: "1", name: "Hello" }, ... ] }
Somehow I managed to call the API with single data ( const params in my current code, it only accepts single data).
But now it has to be done with multiple data something like this:
{ list: [{ id: "1", name: "Hello" }, { id: "22", name: "Ed" }, { id: "36", name: "Jason" } ... ] }
Here is my current code
const [table, setTalbe] = useState(..); // assume, we have some table data here
const processNow = () => {
let id = 0;
let name = '';
// if table length is greater than 1, we go for the loop.
if (table.length >= 1) {
table.map(data => {
id = data.userId;
name = data.userName;
});
//insert table data to params, here I want to add whole table data into "list"
//the final result of this list should be something like this
//ex ) list: [{ id: '123', name: 'Josh' }, { id: '125', name: 'Sue' }, { id: '2222', name: 'Paker' } ...],
// but how??
const params: any = {
list: [
{
id: id,
name: name
},
],
};
//send PUT reqeust with params
axios
.put(
'/api/v1/tosent',
params,
)
.then(res => {
console.log('The response', res);
})
.catch(err => {
console.log('The error: ', err);
});
}
};
but I'm stuck with it, please help me to finish this code to work properly.
need your kind advice.

Answer 1

Array.prototype.map returns a new array with the function you pass applied to every element. You should study the MDN documentation on map to understand its use.
Your current code does nothing with the map return value:
table.map(data => {
id = data.userId;
name = data.userName;
});
You probably assumed .map would mutate the data, as in change it in place. Instead, the whole operation returns a new array.
It looks like you want to do:
const list = table.map(data => {
return {
id: data.userId,
name: data.userName
}
});
This is applying a function to every element in the array that will map each element to a new object, matching your question, with an id and name key. Then it looks like you want to pass the returned value of map (which we named list above) to your call:
const params: any = {
list: list
};