Summary

contains is implemented on Ember.Array, but [contains was renamed to includes in 2014] (https://github.com/tc39/Array.prototype.includes/commit/4b6b9534582cb7991daea3980c26a34af0e76c6c)

• this proposal is for contains to be deprecated in favour of an includes method on Ember.Array

Motivation

Motivation is to stay in line with web standards

Detailed design

First, implement includes polyfill in compliance with includes spec. Polyfill sample from MDN is:

if (!Array.prototype.includes) {
  Array.prototype.includes = function(searchElement /*, fromIndex*/ ) {
    'use strict';
    var O = Object(this);
    var len = parseInt(O.length) || 0;
    if (len === 0) {
      return false;
    }
    var n = parseInt(arguments[1]) || 0;
    var k;
    if (n >= 0) {
      k = n;
    } else {
      k = len + n;
      if (k < 0) {k = 0;}
    }
    var currentElement;
    while (k < len) {
      currentElement = O[k];
      if (searchElement === currentElement ||
         (searchElement !== searchElement && currentElement !== currentElement)) { // NaN !== NaN
        return true;
      }
      k++;
    }
    return false;
  };
}

Then, alias contains to includes with deprecation warning, deprecate in line with standard deprecation process. I don't believe that adding the additional parameter will have any affect on existing usage of contains.

How We Teach This

• Update any references in docs and guides to includes
• Write a deprecation guide, mentioning any edge cases where the new includes behaves differently to contains, and giving migration examples
• Indicate in api docs that this is a polyfill

Drawbacks

• May break existing apps
• Was considered before but was too early

Alternatives

Keep current methods

Unresolved questions

None