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Hi. I can’t understand why this solution isn’t working. And can’t understand the logic of the solution from hint. Can someone explain it to me, please? Your code so far
// Setup
var collection = {
2548: {
album: "Slippery When Wet",
artist: "Bon Jovi",
tracks: [
"Let It Rock",
"You Give Love a Bad Name"
]
},
2468: {
album: "1999",
artist: "Prince",
tracks: [
"1999",
"Little Red Corvette"
]
},
1245: {
artist: "Robert Palmer",
tracks: [ ]
},
5439: {
album: "ABBA Gold"
}
};
// Only change code below this line
function updateRecords(id, prop, value) {
if(value === "") {
delete collection[id][prop];
} else if(prop !== "tracks" && value !== "") {
collection[id][prop] = value;
} else if(prop === "tracks" && value !== "") {
collection[id][prop].push(value);
} else if(prop === tracks && collecion[id].hasOwnProperty(prop) === false) {
collection[id][prop] = [];
collection[id][prop].push(value);
}
return collection;
}
updateRecords(5439, "artist", "ABBA");
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let’s try to run this function call that is giving you issues:
so I delete the function call that is present in the editor, and substitute it with the function we want to test:
...
return collection;
}
-updateRecords(5439, "artist", "ABBA");
+console.log(updateRecords(5439, "tracks", "Take a Chance on Me"))
now we should see what the result is, but, oh, there is an error! It says TypeError: collection[id][prop] is undefined
so it means that the function stops running somewhere.
it means that there is something wrong in this line or above it.
have we ever defined collection[id][prop]? actually, no, we are trying to push to an array that doesn’t exist, and we can’t do that.
Remember that the first statement in an if-elseif-else chain is the one that is executed, that means that the one after this where an array is created, is never reached as far as prop === "tracks" && value !== "" is true