how to call a React function in a loop without an event? - reactjs

React code: I'm trying to use a simple counter in a loop to count each of my todo list items, but I can't seem to execute the code in React. I simply need countopen and countcomplete to get populated and then display them on screen.
countopen and countcomplete are both set in the state, I thought that would be easiest...
App.js
...
//I tried putting my code out in a separate block, then calling it but that doesn't work
todos.map((todo, index) => {
if (todo[index].completed === 0) {
setCountopen(countopen + 1);
} else {
setCountcomplete(countcomplete + 1);
}})
}
<div className="App">
<div className="todo-list">
{todos.map((todo, index) => (
<Todo key={index} index={index} todo={todo} completeTodo={completeTodo} tallyTodos={tallyTodos} />
//i tried putting my code here, no dice React throws syntax errors
**if (todo[index].completed === 0) {
setCountopen(countopen + 1);
} else {
setCountcomplete(countcomplete + 1);
))}**
Open: {countopen} Closed: {countcomplete}
</div>
</div>
);
So I suppose the question to answer is: How do I code my if/else code to get looped over in React? I thought I could piggy back my .map function but nope. I simply need to tally the 2 types of todos and display them in {countopen} and {countcomplete}
Thanks in advance!

This is a derived state and it is best to avoid replicating that in the state as this is prone to desynchronization with the source state value. You should compute it on the fly in the render or if the computation is expensive, use a caching strategy like useMemo React hook.
Before the return you can compute the values using a for loop or compute the length of the filtered todo list that includes only the completed items.
The countopen is always just the difference between todos count and number of completed items - a simple const is enough.
Please see the example below:
let countcomplete = 0;
for (const todo of todos) {
if (todo.completed !== 0) {
countcomplete++;
}
}
// --or--
const completedTodos = todos.filter(todo => todo.completed !== 0);
countcomplete = completedTodos.length;
const countopen = todos.length - countcomplete;
return (
<div className="App">
<div className="todo-list">
{todos.map((todo, index) => (
<Todo key={index} index={index} todo={todo} completeTodo={completeTodo} tallyTodos={tallyTodos} />
)}
Open: {countopen} Closed: {countcomplete}
</div>
</div>
);

Your answer helped me solve my issue: I was trying to calculate my values in the loop, when your array.filter() solution did the trick.
I added this code
const completedTodos = todos.filter(todo => todo.completed == 1);
const openTodos = todos.length - completedTodos.length;
...and everything worked.
Thank you Mr Zalewski!

Related

React + Api+ Context

I have a simple React app. On the 'home' page you can search movies from an API and add a movie to a list of favorited. I'm using Context to store which movies are on the list and pass it to the 'favorites' page where those items are rendered. It works well up to a point.
Once on the 'favorites' page, when I remove a movie, I would like the page to then show the updated elements. Instead, I have the elements I already had there plus the elements from the updated list.
So let's say my favorited movies were 'spiderman', 'batman' and 'dracula'. when I remove 'dracula' from the list, I suddenly have the cards of 'spiderman', 'batman, 'dracula', 'spiderman'(again) and 'batman'(again).
When I reload the 'favorites' page, it all works as intended. I just would like for it to be updated correctly upon removing the movie.
Any advice?
Here is the code for the Home page, Favorite page, DataContext and the Card component
import React, { createContext, useState, useEffect } from "react";
export const DataContext = createContext();
function DataContextProvider({ children }) {
const [favorited, setFavorited] = useState([]);
useEffect(() => {
const savedMovies = localStorage.getItem("movies");
if (savedMovies) {
setFavorited(JSON.parse(savedMovies));
}
}, []);
useEffect(() => {
localStorage.setItem("movies", JSON.stringify(favorited));
}, [favorited]);
function addToFavorites(id) {
setFavorited((prev) => [...prev, id]);
}
function removeFromFavorited(id) {
const filtered = favorited.filter(el => el != id)
setFavorited(filtered)
}
return (
<DataContext.Provider value={{ favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited}}>
{children}
</DataContext.Provider>
);
}
export default DataContextProvider;
function Favorites(props) {
const ctx = useContext(DataContext);
const [favoriteMovies, setFavoriteMovies] = useState([]);
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`
)
.then((res) => {
setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]);
});
}
}, [ctx.favorited]);
return (
<>
<Navbar />
<main>
<div className="favorites-container">
{favoriteMovies.map((movie) => {
return <Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />;
})}
</div>
</main>
</>
);
}
function Home(props) {
const [moviesData, setMoviesData] = useState([]);
const [numOfMovies, setNumOfMovies] = useState(10);
const [search, setSearch] = useState(getDayOfWeek());
const [spinner, setSpinner] = useState(true);
const [goodToBad, setGoodToBad] = useState(null);
function getDayOfWeek() {
const date = new Date().getDay();
let day = "";
switch (date) {
case 0:
day = "Sunday";
break;
case 1:
day = "Monday";
break;
case 2:
day = "Tuesday";
break;
case 3:
day = "Wednesday";
break;
case 4:
day = "Thursday";
break;
case 5:
day = "Friday";
break;
case 6:
day = "Saturday";
break;
}
return day;
}
function bestToWorst() {
setGoodToBad(true);
}
function worstToBest() {
setGoodToBad(false);
}
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=${key}&query=${search}`
)
.then((res) => {
setMoviesData(res.data.results);
//console.log(res.data.results)
setSpinner(false);
setGoodToBad(null);
});
}, [search]);
return (
<>
<Navbar />
<main>
<form>
<input
type="text"
placeholder="Search here"
id="search-input"
onChange={(e) => {
setSearch(e.target.value);
setNumOfMovies(10);
}}
/>
{/* <input type="submit" value="Search" /> */}
</form>
<div className="sorting-btns">
<button id="top" onClick={bestToWorst}>
<BsArrowUp />
</button>
<button id="bottom" onClick={worstToBest}>
<BsArrowDown />
</button>
</div>
{spinner ? <Loader /> : ""}
<div>
<div className="results">
{!moviesData.length && <p>No results found</p>}
{moviesData
.slice(0, numOfMovies)
.sort((a,b) => {
if(goodToBad) {
return b.vote_average - a.vote_average
} else if (goodToBad === false){
return a.vote_average - b.vote_average
}
})
.map((movie) => (
<Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />
))}
</div>
</div>
{numOfMovies < moviesData.length && (
<button className="more-btn" onClick={() => setNumOfMovies((prevNum) => prevNum + 6)}>
Show More
</button>
)}
</main>
</>
);
}
export default Home;
function Card(props) {
const ctx = useContext(DataContext);
return (
<div
className={
ctx.favorited.includes(props.movie.id)
? "favorited movie-card"
: "movie-card"
}
>
<div className="movie-img">
<img
alt="movie poster"
src={
props.movie.poster_path
? `https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200/${props.movie.poster_path}`
: "./generic-title.png"
}
/>
</div>
<h2>{props.movie.original_title}</h2>
<p>{props.movie.vote_average}/10</p>
<button
className="add-btn"
onClick={() => ctx.addToFavorites(props.movie.id)}
>
Add
</button>
<button
className="remove-btn"
onClick={() => ctx.removeFromFavorited(props.movie.id)}
>
Remove
</button>
</div>
);
}
export default Card;
As mentioned before a lot of things cold be improved (you might want to check some react tutorial beginners related to best practices).
Anyway the main issue your app seems to be your callback after you get the response from the API (so this part):
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`
)
.then((res) => {
setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]);
});
}
here you are calling setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]); but you actually never reset your favoriteMovies list.
So in your example favoriteMovies is ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula']. Then the useEffect callback executes with the array unchanged.
So you are making the requests just for 'spiderman' and 'batman' but your favoriteMovies array is ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula'] when the callback is entered (and this is why you end up appending those values to the existing ones and in the end your favoriteMovies == ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula', 'spiderman', 'batman'] in your example).
How to fix?
Quick fix would that might be obvious would be to reset the favoriteMovies at the beggining of useEffect. But that would be a extremly bad ideea since setting the state many times is terrible for performance reasons (each setState callback triggers a re-render) as well as for redability. So please don't consider this.
What I would suggest though would be to get all the values in the useEffect callback, put all the new favorite movies data in a variable and at the end of the function change the state in one call with the full updated list.
There are multiple ways to achieve this (async await is the best imo), but trying to alter the code as little as possible something like this should also work:
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
const favoriteMoviesPromises = [];
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
favoriteMoviesPromises.push(
axios
.get(`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`)
.then((res) => res.data)
);
}
Promise.all(favoriteMoviesPromises).then((newFavoriteMovies) =>
setFavoriteMovies(newFavoriteMovies)
);
});
Please note I wasn't able to test this code since I don't have an exact reproduction of the error (so it might need some small adjustments). This code sample is rather a direction for your problem :)
Edit regarding the comment:
Despite the state issue, I would really recommend working on code cleanliness, efficiency and readability.
Examples (I put a few examples in code snippets to avoid a really long comment):
1. `function getDayOfWeek`:
First thing is that you don't need the `day` variable and all the break statement.
You could just return the value on the spot (this would also stop the execution of the function).
So instead of
case 0:
day = "Sunday";
break;
you could have
case 0:
return "Sunday";
Going even further you don't need a switch case at all. You could just create an array
`const daysOfWeek = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', "Saturday"]`
and just return daysOfWeek[date].
This would result in shorter and easier to read code.
2. Also this code is not really consistent. For example you have
onChange={(e) => {
setSearch(e.target.value);
setNumOfMovies(10);
}}
but also `onClick={bestToWorst}` which is just `function bestToWorst() { setGoodToBad(true) }`.
If this is not reusable you could just use `onClick={() => setGoodToBad(true)}`.
But even if you really want to keep the bestToWorst callback for whatever reason you could at least write and inline function
(something like `const bestToWorst = () => setGoodToBad(true)` and use it the same).
Anyway... From thoose 2 cases (bestToWorst and `Search here` onChange function),
the second one make more sense to be defined outside.
3. The next part is really hard to read and maintain:
{!moviesData.length && <p>No results found</p>}
{moviesData
.slice(0, numOfMovies)
.sort((a,b) => {
if(goodToBad) {
return b.vote_average - a.vote_average
} else if (goodToBad === false){
return a.vote_average - b.vote_average
}
})
.map((movie) => (
<Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />
))}
Also this code doesn't belong in html.
You should at least put the slice and sort parts in a function.
Going further `if(goodToBad)` and `else if (goodToBad === false)` are also not ideal.
It would be best to use a separate function an example would be something like:
const getFormattedMoviesData = () => {
let formattedMoviesData = moviesData.slice(0, numOfMovies)
if(!goodToBad && goodToBad !== false) return formattedMoviesData;
const getMoviesDifference = (m1, m2) => m1.vote_average - m2.vote_average
return formattedMoviesData.sort((a,b) => goodToBad ? getMoviesDIfference(b,a) : getMoviesDIfference(a,b)
4. DataContext name doesn't suggest anything.
I would propose something more meaningfull (especially for contexts) like `FavoriteMoviesContext`.
In this way people can get an ideea of what it represents when they come across it in the code.
Additionally the context only contains `favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited`.
So rather than using
`const ctx = useContext(DataContext);`
you could just use
`const {favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited} = useContext(DataContext);`
and get rid of the ctx variable in your code
Regarding the api:
If the search api returns all the movie data you need you can take it from there and use it in the favorites.
Alternatively it would be great to have an endpoint to return a list of multiple movies
(so send an array of id's in the request and receive all of them).
But this is only possible if the backend supports it.
But otherwise, since the api might contain hundreds of thousands or even millions, having them all stored on the frontside state would be an overkill
(you can in some cases have this type lists stored in a redux state or a react context and filter them on frontend side.
But it won't be efficient for such a big volume of data).
Small conclusion: ignoring the state part there aren't big issues in the code (and for a personal project or for learning might be decent). But if someone else has to work on in or you have to come back on this code after a month might become a nightmare. (especially since it seems like the codebase is not very small)
And people trying to understand your code might find it hard as well (including when you are posting it on stack overflow). I highlighted just a few, but it should point in the right direction, I hope.
First of all, you should review the way you manage the favorite movies and that of what you want to do with them in your app. If you need to make a page to display the list of favorites, I would rather save in localstorage the necessary information for the list (cover, title, year, id, etc) without having to save the whole movie object. This will prevent you from having to call the API for each movie which will be very bad in terms of performance on your application. Also, it will prevent you from having to create another state on the Favorites page so it will solve your problem automatically (I think your problem came from the duplicate state you have).

React not rendering list after the state is changed

I am creating a simple tracker which records all the activities done. It is my first project in react. I have created three state one for storing all the items(name of state is list), one for pending items(name of state is pending) , one for completed items(name of state is completed). The items have a button which when clicked marks it into done state and vice-versa. It is completely rendering items for main list. But for other two its not rendering. When I am checking with react developer tools, it is working fine, i.e. it is adding to pending list or completed list as it should. But it is not compiling them on screen. list is already filled with items. I have added all the code for just in case.
function Filters(props){
const [completed, setCompleted] = useState([]);
const [pending, setPending] = useState([]);
const [state, setState] = useState("None");
const [list,setList] = useState([]);
function viewState(){
setState("View-all");
}
//it is getting the clicked item id and marking it complete in main list
function markComplete(id){
list.map((items,index)=>{
if(index===id){
if(items.done===true)
items.done = false;
else{
items.done=true;
}
}
})
}
//i am simply scanning the main list and the items which are pending will be added to this list. //this happens whenever the person click on pending button
function pendingState(){
setState("pending-all");
setPending([]);
list.map(items=>{
if(items.done!==true){
setPending(prev=>{
return [...prev,items];
})
}
})
}
function completedState(){
setState("completed-all");
setCompleted([]);
list.map(items=>{
if(items.done===true){
setCompleted(prev=>{
return [...prev,items];
})
}
})
}
return (
<div>
<div className="input-section">
<Note setList={setList} />
</div>
<button type="button" onClick={viewState} >View All</button>
<button type="button" onClick={completedState}>Completed</button>
<button type="button" onClick={pendingState}>Pending</button>
<div>
{
(()=>{
if(state==="View-all")
{
return (
<div>
<h1>Working {completed}</h1>
{(list).map((items,index)=>
{
return (
<Excercise
key={index}
id={index}
title={items.name}
list={props.list}
setList={props.setList}
content={items.desp}
markComplete={markComplete}
/>
)
})}
</div>
)
}
else if(state==="completed-all")
{
return (
<div>
{completed.map((items,index)=>{
<Excercise
key={index}
id={index}
title={items.name}
list={props.list}
setList={props.setList}
content={items.desp}
markComplete={markComplete}
/>
})}
</div>
)
}
})()
}
</div>
</div>);
}
Kindly help. Thank you.
Hi #DREW
The function code :
function markComplete(id){
setList(lists=>{
lists.map(item=>{
return item.id===id ?{...item,done: !item.done} : (item);})
}
)
}
When I am using it instead of
const markComplete = (id) => {
setList((list) =>
list.map((item) =>
item.id === id
? {
...item,
done: !item.done
}
: item
)
);
};
it is showing, "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')"
arent the both same. If not, what am I doing wrong. Sorry for bugging so many times, I have just started with react.
I think you've overcomplicated things a bit. You only need one array to store the exercises in, the "pending" and "completed" states are easily derived from the list state and the state filter state value.
Issues
markComplete callback is mutating the list state. When updating the list state not only is a new array reference necessary, but also new element object references are necessary for the elements that are being updated.
Uses poor boolean comparisons to set a boolean value. You can either toggle a boolean or set the value to the result of a boolean expression.
Use the viewState, pendingState, and completedState handlers to simply set the filter value, and then derive the computed state when rendering by adding an inline filter function.
Use the exercise id property as a React key and as the property used for toggling the completed (done) state.
Solution
function Filters(props) {
const [state, setState] = useState("None");
const [list, setList] = useState([
...
]);
function viewState() {
setState("View-all");
}
function pendingState() {
setState("pending-all");
}
function completedState() {
setState("completed-all");
}
const markComplete = (id) => {
setList((list) =>
list.map((item) =>
item.id === id
? {
...item,
done: !item.done
}
: item
)
);
};
return (
<div>
<div className="input-section">
<Note setList={setList} />
</div>
<button type="button" onClick={viewState}>
View All
</button>
<button type="button" onClick={completedState}>
Completed
</button>
<button type="button" onClick={pendingState}>
Pending
</button>
<div>
{list
.filter((item) => {
if (state === "pending-all") {
return !item.done;
} else if (state === "completed-all") {
return item.done;
}
return true;
})
.map((item) => (
<Excercise
key={item.id}
id={item.id}
done={item.done}
title={item.name}
content={item.desp}
markComplete={markComplete}
/>
))}
</div>
</div>
);
}
try to add dependecies in useEffect
in this function you are mutating a state, so in order to do so you need to use the setState function, in this case, it will be setList().
function markComplete(id){
list.map((items,index)=>{
if(index===id){
if(items.done===true)
items.done = false;
else{
items.done=true;
}
}
})
}
So a better way to implement this function could be, and remember, everything time you need to update a state you don't want to change the state directly, instead, you should make a copy and set the state to that copy
function markComplete(id){
const newList = [...list];
newList.map((items,index)=>{
if(index===id){
if(items.done===true)
items.done = false;
else{
items.done=true;
}
}
}
setList(newList)
}
The reason of your app not updating is because when your state changes react is not re-rendering it again.
so use useEffect, there are many hooks which can be used as per requirement.
try putting this line of code
useEffect( ( ) => {
console.log( 'Check console' );
}, [ dependency_here ] );
in dependency_here try adding state, completed, pending one by one and see the result.
You can also add multiple dependencies like [ state, pending, etc.. ];
Try on your own you'll understand it faster.
Hope hint will help you!

NextJS React, nested array in UseState not rendering on update inside of javascript

I have a hard time trying to understand "useState" and when a render is triggered. I want to make a drag and drop system where the user can drag elements from one box to another.
I have successfully done this by using pure javascript, but as usual, it gets messy fast and I want to keep it clean. I thought since I'm using react I should do it using UseState, and I've got the array to update the way I want it to but the changes don't render.
Shouldn't I use useState in this way? What should I use instead? I don't want to solve it the "hacky" way, I want it to be proper.
const [allComponents, updateArray] = useState([])
function arrayMove(array, closest) {
let moveChild = array[parentIndex].children[childIndex]
array[parentIndex].children = array[parentIndex].children.filter(function(value, index, arr){ return index != childIndex;});
array[closest].children = [...array[closest].children, moveChild];
return array;
}
var lastClosest = {"parent": null, "child": null};
var parentIndex = null;
var childIndex = null;
function allowDrop(ev, index) {
ev.preventDefault();
if(allComponents.length > 0) {
let closest = index;
if((parentIndex == lastClosest.parent && childIndex == lastClosest.child) || (closest == parentIndex)) {
return;
}
lastClosest.parent = parentIndex;
lastClosest.child = childIndex;
updateArray(prevItems => (arrayMove(prevItems, closest)));
}
}
function dragStart(pI, cI, ev) {
parentIndex = pI;
childIndex = cI;
}
function drop(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
}
function addNewSpace() {
updateArray(prevItems => [...prevItems, {"name": "blaab", "children": [{"child": "sdaasd", "type": "text"}]}]);
}
return (
<div className={styles.container}>
<button onClick={addNewSpace}>Add</button>
<div className={styles.spacesWrapper}>
{allComponents.map(({name, children}, index) => (
<div key={"spacer_" + index} onDragOver={(event) => allowDrop(event, index)} onDrop={(event) => drop(event)} className={styles.space}>
{children.map(({type, child}, index2) => (
<div id ={"movable_" + index + ":" + index2} key={"movable_" + index2} className={styles.moveableOne}>
<div key={"draggable_" + index2} draggable="true" onDrag={(event) => onDrag(event)} onDragStart={(event) => dragStart(index, index2, event)}>
</div>
</div>
))}
</div>
))}
</div>
</div>
)
}
Here is the problem I'm experiencing with the nested array not updating properly:
A react page re-renders every time the state changes. So every time a setState is called, the react component re-renders itself and updates the page to reflect the changes.
You can also see how the state is updating if you install the react dev tools chrome extension.
Try to modify your code with the below code and see if it solves your issue,
import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";
let newAllComponents = [...allComponents];
useEffect(() =>
{
newAllComponents = [...allComponents]
}, [allComponents]);
/* div inside return*/
{newAllComponents.map(({ name, children }, index) => (
<div
key={"spacer_" + index}
onDragOver={(event) => allowDrop(event, index)}
onDrop={(event) => drop(event)}
>

useRef in a dynamic context, where the amount of refs is not constant but based on a property

In my application I have a list of "chips" (per material-ui), and on clicking the delete button a delete action should be taken. The action needs to be given a reference to the chip not the button.
A naive (and wrong) implementation would look like:
function MemberList(props) {
const {userList} = this.props;
refs = {}
for (const usr.id of userList) {
refs[usr.id] = React.useRef();
}
return <>
<div >
{
userList.map(usr => {
return <UserThumbView
ref={refs[usr.id]}
key={usr.id}
user={usr}
handleDelete={(e) => {
onRemove(usr, refs[usr.id])
}}
/>
}) :
}
</div>
</>
}
However as said this is wrong, since react expects all hooks to always in the same order, and (hence) always be of the same amount. (above would actually work, until we add a state/any other hook below the for loop).
How would this be solved? Or is this the limit of functional components?
Refs are just a way to save a reference between renders. Just remember to check if it is defined before you use it. See the example code below.
function MemberList(props) {
const refs = React.useRef({});
return (
<div>
{props.userList.map(user => (
<UserThumbView
handleDelete={(e) => onRemove(user, refs[user.id])}
ref={el => refs.current[user.id] = el}
key={user.id}
user={user}
/>
})}
</div>
)
}

How to store refs in functional component properly

I'm trying to create a component that tests english vocabulary.
Basically, there are 4 options with 1 correct.
When user chooses option, the right option is highlited in green, and the wrong one in red.
Then user can push the "next" button to go to the next batch of words.
I store refs in object (domRefs, line 68).
Populate it at line 80.
And remove all refs at line 115.
But it doesnt get removed, and leads to error (line 109)
https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-yocysc
So the question is - How to store these refs and what would be the better way to write this component?
Please help, Thanks.
You shouldn't keep refs for component in global variable, since it's making your component singleton. To apply some styles just use conditional rendering instead. Also, it's better to split your test app into several separate components with smaller responsibilities:
const getClassName(index, selected, rightAnswer) {
if (selected === null) {
return;
}
if (index === rightAnswer) {
return classes.rightAnswer;
}
if (index === selected) {
return classes.wrongAnswer;
}
}
const Step = ({ question, answers, rightAnswer, selected, onSelect, onNext }) => (
<div ...>
<div>{ question }</div>
{ answers.map(
(answer, index) => (
<Paper
key={ index }
onClick={ () => onSelect(index) }
className={ getClassName(index, selected, rightAnswer) }
) }
{ selected && <button onClick={ onNext() }>Next</button> }
</div>
);
const Test = () => {
const [ index, setIndex ] = useState();
const word = ..., answers = ..., onSelect = ..., onNext = ...,
return (
<Question
question={ word }
answers={ answers }
... />
);
}

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