React Native: Checkbox List Structure - react-native

Question

A user object has an array prop schools that references one or more school objects. I would like to use a <List> with <CheckBox> to mutate the schools array.
I load the user object into the view, and I load the listOfSchools (from the application state) to generate the checkbox list:
<List data={listOfSchools} keyExtractor={ item=> item._id } renderItem={({item})=>renderItem(item)} />
The renderItem function:
const renderItem = (school) => {
return <ListItem
title={school.name}
accessory={()=>renderAccessory(school)}
/>
};
The renderAccessory function:
const renderAccessory = (school) => {
return <CheckBox checked={() => checkSchool(school._id)} onChange={()=>changeSchool(school._id)} />
}
The checkSchool function returns boolean on if the school._id is referenced in the user.schools array. The changeSchool function adds or removes the school._id from the users.schools array.
The changeSchool function:
const changeSchool = (schoolId) => {
let checked = checkSchool(schoolId);
if (!checked) {
// add schoolId to user.schools
} else {
// remove schoolId from user.schools
}
}
This drastically does not work. It appears that no matter what I use to mutate the state, the checkboxes never update, nor does the user.schools array mutate.
What is the proper way to structure such a design goal?

Answer 1

Assuming that you use UI Kitten, I can see that you got the checked prop value wrong for the CheckBox component.
UI Kitten CheckBox reference
The checked prop needs to be a boolean not a Callable as you have it there
I would try to change the code like this:
const renderAccessory = (school) => {
const isChecked = checkSchool(school._id);
return <CheckBox checked={isChecked} onChange={()=>changeSchool(school._id)} />
}
Let me know if that helped.

Answer 2

While trying various solutions i can conclude few things here:
With the solution given by #Cornel Raiu the checked and unchecked flags are getting correctly calculated however, the display was not correct with the state of checked/unchecked
I replaced Checkbox with Toggle, just to be sure that it works with iOS too
PROBLEM that i faced still is that, even the State of item getting toggled is correctly populating it was getting reset
The outside container of Toggles is List and ListItem,
OBSERVATION is that the Press event on List was actually getting the Checkbox/Toggle into correct Display State...
SOLUTION:
After longer time of research and experiments I got my thing working with following approach -
I maintained separate collection of Checked Items
There is already a state of Collection of master items, as input to List
Every time the Checkbox/Toggle is clicked, the master list of Data is cloned and copied back to its state
This was triggering the slight re-render of component and thing is working as expected.
const [cashTransactions, setCashTransactions] = useState([]); // master data
const [selectedTransactions, setSelectedTransactions] = useState([]); // selected data
const renderItem = ({ item, index }) => (
<ListItem
title={'('+item.id + ') ' + item.firstName + ' ' + item.lastName}
description={Moment(item.createdOn).format('yyyy-MM-DD hh:mm:ss')}
accessoryLeft={selectedTransactions.includes(item.id) ? RadioOnIcon : RadioOffIcon}
accessoryRight={() => checkBoxSpace(item)}
/>
);
const checkBoxSpace = (item) => {
let itemChecked = selectedTransactions.includes(item.id);
return (
<View style={styles.actionContainer}>
<Button size='tiny' status='basic' accessoryLeft={rupeeSymbol}>{item.amount}</Button>
<Toggle checked={itemChecked} status='primary' size='small' onChange={checked => checkboxChecked(item, checked)}></Toggle>
</View>
)
}
const checkboxChecked = (item, checked) => {
console.log('Item -' + item.id + ' ' + checked);
if (checked) {
if (!selectedTransactions.includes(item.id)) {
selectedTransactions.push(item.id);
}
} else {
if (selectedTransactions.includes(item.id)) {
selectedTransactions.pop(item.id);
}
}
console.log('selectedTransactions ' + JSON.stringify(selectedTransactions));
// This is the thing i applied to get it done.
const cloned = [...cashTransactions];
setCashTransactions(cloned);
}
// View
<List
style={styles.container}
data={cashTransactions}
renderItem={renderItem}
/>