没有第三方库 不需要预先排序数组 你可以得到树的任何部分

试试这个

function getUnflatten(arr,parentid){
  let output = []
  for(const obj of arr){
    if(obj.parentid == parentid)

      let children = getUnflatten(arr,obj.id)

      if(children.length){
        obj.children = children
      }
      output.push(obj)
    }
  }

  return output
 }

在Jsfiddle上测试它

(奖励1:节点可以排序，也可以不排序)

(bonus2:不需要第三方库，纯js)

(BONUS3:用户“Elias Rabl”说这是最高效的解决方案，见下面他的回答)

下面就是:

const createDataTree = dataset => {
  const hashTable = Object.create(null);
  dataset.forEach(aData => hashTable[aData.ID] = {...aData, childNodes: []});
  const dataTree = [];
  dataset.forEach(aData => {
    if(aData.parentID) hashTable[aData.parentID].childNodes.push(hashTable[aData.ID])
    else dataTree.push(hashTable[aData.ID])
  });
  return dataTree;
};

下面是一个测试，它可能会帮助你理解解决方案是如何工作的:

it('creates a correct shape of dataTree', () => {
  const dataSet = [{
    "ID": 1,
    "Phone": "(403) 125-2552",
    "City": "Coevorden",
    "Name": "Grady"
  }, {
    "ID": 2,
    "parentID": 1,
    "Phone": "(979) 486-1932",
    "City": "Chełm",
    "Name": "Scarlet"
  }];

  const expectedDataTree = [{
    "ID": 1,
    "Phone": "(403) 125-2552",
    "City": "Coevorden",
    "Name": "Grady",
    childNodes: [{
      "ID": 2,
      "parentID": 1,
      "Phone": "(979) 486-1932",
      "City": "Chełm",
      "Name": "Scarlet",
      childNodes : []
    }]
  }];

  expect(createDataTree(dataSet)).toEqual(expectedDataTree);
});

我已经编写了一个测试脚本来评估用户shekhardtu(见答案)和FurkanO(见答案)提出的两种最通用的解决方案的性能(意味着输入不需要事先排序，代码不依赖于第三方库)。

http://playcode.io/316025?tabs=console&script.js&output

FurkanO的解决方案似乎是最快的。

/* ** performance test for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18017869/build-tree-array-from-flat-array-in-javascript */ // Data Set (e.g. nested comments) var comments = [{ id: 1, parent_id: null }, { id: 2, parent_id: 1 }, { id: 3, parent_id: 4 }, { id: 4, parent_id: null }, { id: 5, parent_id: 4 }]; // add some random entries let maxParentId = 10000; for (let i=6; i<=maxParentId; i++) { let randVal = Math.floor((Math.random() * maxParentId) + 1); comments.push({ id: i, parent_id: (randVal % 200 === 0 ? null : randVal) }); } // solution from user "shekhardtu" (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55241491/5135171) const nest = (items, id = null, link = 'parent_id') => items .filter(item => item[link] === id) .map(item => ({ ...item, children: nest(items, item.id) })); ; // solution from user "FurkanO" (https://stackoverflow.com/a/40732240/5135171) const createDataTree = dataset => { let hashTable = Object.create(null) dataset.forEach( aData => hashTable[aData.id] = { ...aData, children : [] } ) let dataTree = [] dataset.forEach( aData => { if( aData.parent_id ) hashTable[aData.parent_id].children.push(hashTable[aData.id]) else dataTree.push(hashTable[aData.id]) } ) return dataTree }; /* ** lets evaluate the timing for both methods */ let t0 = performance.now(); let createDataTreeResult = createDataTree(comments); let t1 = performance.now(); console.log("Call to createDataTree took " + Math.floor(t1 - t0) + " milliseconds."); t0 = performance.now(); let nestResult = nest(comments); t1 = performance.now(); console.log("Call to nest took " + Math.floor(t1 - t0) + " milliseconds."); //console.log(nestResult); //console.log(createDataTreeResult); // bad, but simple way of comparing object equality console.log(JSON.stringify(nestResult)===JSON.stringify(createDataTreeResult));

如果使用地图查找，就有一个有效的解决方案。如果父母总是在他们的孩子之前，你可以合并两个for循环。它支持多个根。它在悬垂的分支上给出一个错误，但可以修改为忽略它们。它不需要第三方库。就我所知，这是最快的解决方法。

function list_to_tree(list) { var map = {}, node, roots = [], i; for (i = 0; i < list.length; i += 1) { map[list[i].id] = i; // initialize the map list[i].children = []; // initialize the children } for (i = 0; i < list.length; i += 1) { node = list[i]; if (node.parentId !== "0") { // if you have dangling branches check that map[node.parentId] exists list[map[node.parentId]].children.push(node); } else { roots.push(node); } } return roots; } var entries = [{ "id": "12", "parentId": "0", "text": "Man", "level": "1", "children": null }, { "id": "6", "parentId": "12", "text": "Boy", "level": "2", "children": null }, { "id": "7", "parentId": "12", "text": "Other", "level": "2", "children": null }, { "id": "9", "parentId": "0", "text": "Woman", "level": "1", "children": null }, { "id": "11", "parentId": "9", "text": "Girl", "level": "2", "children": null } ]; console.log(list_to_tree(entries));

如果你喜欢复杂性理论，这个解决方案是Θ(n log(n))。递归过滤器的解决方案是Θ(n^2)，这对于大型数据集可能是一个问题。

以防有家长需要。参考id 2，它有多个父元素

const dataSet = [{ "ID": 1, "Phone": "(403) 125-2552", "City": "Coevorden", "Name": "Grady" }, {"ID": 2, "Phone": "(403) 125-2552", "City": "Coevorden", "Name": "Grady" }, { "ID": 3, "parentID": [1,2], "Phone": "(979) 486-1932", "City": "Chełm", "Name": "Scarlet" }]; const expectedDataTree = [ { "ID":1, "Phone":"(403) 125-2552", "City":"Coevorden", "Name":"Grady", "childNodes":[{ "ID":2, "parentID":[1,3], "Phone":"(979) 486-1932", "City":"Chełm", "Name":"Scarlet", "childNodes":[] }] }, { "ID":3, "parentID":[], "Phone":"(403) 125-2552", "City":"Coevorden", "Name":"Grady", "childNodes":[ { "ID":2, "parentID":[1,3], "Phone":"(979) 486-1932", "City":"Chełm", "Name":"Scarlet", "childNodes":[] } ] } ]; const createDataTree = dataset => { const hashTable = Object.create(null); dataset.forEach(aData => hashTable[aData.ID] = {...aData, childNodes: []}); const dataTree = []; dataset.forEach(Datae => { if (Datae.parentID && Datae.parentID.length > 0) { Datae.parentID.forEach( aData => { hashTable[aData].childNodes.push(hashTable[Datae.ID]) }); } else{ dataTree.push(hashTable[Datae.ID]) } }); return dataTree; }; window.alert(JSON.stringify(createDataTree(dataSet)));

你可以使用这个来自Github或NPM的“treeify”包。

安装:

$ NPM install——save-dev treeify-js