[Proposal]: Need support to accept JSON object instead Array for elements

Currently we are using array of elements as input to the react-flow-render. Its very difficult to update one element properties

e.g

I want to update one node object based on the click or whatever.

1. Curretly i need to get the index of the clicked node first
2. Clone the entire elements and update the node based on the index we got from the first point
3. update the entire elements

Proposal:

If we change the elements to Object. like the below. it will be easy to update the tree

{
  "etQRriCEb44snkFQIQ6_r": {
    "id": "etQRriCEb44snkFQIQ6_r",
    "type": "customNode",
    "data": {
      "label": "custom Node",
      "color": "#800080"
    },
    "position": {
      "x": 597,
      "y": 162
    }
  }
}

[MonliH]

I also would like to see an object here, as it seems to make more sense. I think this would improve performance a lot, especially when there are very many nodes: looking for an element with a given id on an array is O(n) (the more nodes, the slower it gets), while on an object it’s O(1) (constant time).

[moklick]

Hey @pradeepravi-cse

It’s a good point. We are thinking about using a Map as the new data structure for nodes #681.