Immutable JS compare nested structures

Question

I have 2 nested structures newState and newState1.

But when I compare their, equals() or Immutable.is() returned false. The values in these structures identical.

How to correctly compare newState and newState1?

var grid = {
    editable: false,
    widgets: [{
        name: 'Some widget',
        type: 'List',
        defaultDataSource: 'daily',
        dataSources: {}
    }, {
        name: 'Some widget1',
        type: 'List',
        defaultDataSource: 'daily',
        dataSources: {}
    }]
};

var state = Immutable.fromJS(grid);

var newState = state.updateIn(['widgets'], function (list) {
    return list.push(Immutable.Map({
        name: 'Some widget2',
        type: 'List',
        defaultDataSource: 'daily',
        dataSources: {}
    }));
});

var newState1 = state.updateIn(['widgets'], function (list) {
    return list.push(Immutable.Map({
        name: 'Some widget2',
        type: 'List',
        defaultDataSource: 'daily',
        dataSources: {}
    }));
});

console.log(state.toJS(), newState.toJS(), newState1.toJS());

console.log(newState.equals(newState1)); //false

Code in JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/z3xuagwm/

Answer 1

It seems that immutablejs don't do deep conversion, so if your value is object, it stays to be object.

As you're creating different object in each update step, and those objects will be treat different when you compare to each other, so you should also convert it to Immutable.Map object, to make the compare be true.

// Primitives.
var test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a', 
    b: 'b', 
    c: 'c'
});
var test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: 'c'
});
console.log('Test primitive', test1.equals(test2)); // true

// Object
test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: {}
});
test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: {}
});
console.log('Test object', test1.equals(test2));  // false
// Its because
var a = {};
var b = {};
console.log('a === b?', a === b); // false

// Convert
test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: Immutable.Map({})
});
test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: Immutable.Map({})
});
console.log('Test converted', test1.equals(test2)); // true

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