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/*
 * DYNAMIC FILTERING FOR RETHINKDB
 * Accepts an object with property values to match
 * Array values will match any of
 * filters = {name: 'Iron Man', identity: ['Tony Stark', 'Anthony Stark']};
 */

r.table('test').filter(function(row) {
	// Create a placeholder for the predicates
	var predicates = [];

	// Define a function to recurse through filters
	function makePredicates(obj, current_row) {
		for (var prop in obj) {
			var predicate = current_row(prop);

			// This is a deeper object
			if (!Array.isArray(obj[prop]) && typeof filters[prop] == 'object') {
				makePredicates(obj[prop], predicate);
			}

			else {

				// If an array value was passed in
				if (Array.isArray(obj[prop])) {
					predicate = r.expr(obj[prop]).contains(predicate);
				}

				else {
					predicate = predicate.eq(obj[prop]);
				}

			}

			// Add the predicate function to an array
			predicates.push(predicate);
		};
	}

	// Build predicates with the passed in filters
  makePredicates(filters, row);

	// Start building a predicate function chain
	var filter_function = predicates[0];

	// Chain the remaining predicate functions
	predicates.slice(1).forEach(function(predicate) {
		filter_function = filter_function.and(predicate);
	});

	return filter_function;
});