grafana/public/app/features/transformers/partitionByValues/partition.ts

type Idxs = number[];
type KeyMap = Map<unknown, KeyMap | Idxs>;
type Accum = Idxs[];

/** The totally type-aware flavor is much slower, so we prefer to disable the lint rule in this case */
/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/consistent-type-assertions */
const digArrs = (map: KeyMap | Idxs, depth: number, acc: Accum = []) => {
  // the leaf nodes are always Idxs
  if (depth === 0) {
    acc.push(map as Idxs);
  }
  // the branch nodes are always KeyMaps
  else {
    (map as KeyMap).forEach((v) => {
      digArrs(v, depth - 1, acc);
    });
  }

  return acc;
};

// in:  [['a','b','z','b'], ['c','c','x','c']]
// out: [[0], [1,3], [2]]
export function partition(keys: unknown[][]) {
  const len = keys[0].length;
  const klen = keys.length;

  const rootMap: KeyMap = new Map();

  for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    let cur: KeyMap | Idxs = rootMap;

    for (let j = 0; j < klen; j++) {
      let key = keys[j][i];

      let next: KeyMap | Idxs | undefined = (cur as KeyMap).get(key);

      if (next == null) {
        next = j === klen - 1 ? [] : new Map();
        (cur as KeyMap).set(key, next);
      }

      cur = next;
    }

    (cur as Idxs).push(i);
  }

  return digArrs(rootMap, klen);
}

/* eslint-enable @typescript-eslint/consistent-type-assertions */