Refactor

app/src/actions/clearTopic.ts

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+import * as q from '../../../backend/src/Model'
+import { AppState } from '../reducers'
+import { Dispatch } from 'redux'
+import { makePublishEvent, rendererEvents } from '../../../events'
+import { moveSelectionUpOrDownwards } from './visibleTreeTraversal'
+
+export const clearTopic = (topic: q.TreeNode<any>, recursive: boolean, subtopicClearLimit = 50) => (
+  dispatch: Dispatch<any>,
+  getState: () => AppState
+) => {
+  dispatch(moveSelectionUpOrDownwards('next'))
+
+  const { connectionId } = getState().connection
+  if (!connectionId) {
+    return
+  }
+  const publishEvent = makePublishEvent(connectionId)
+  const mqttMessage = {
+    topic: topic.path(),
+    payload: null,
+    retain: true,
+    qos: 0 as 0,
+  }
+  rendererEvents.emit(publishEvent, mqttMessage)
+  if (recursive) {
+    topic
+      .childTopics()
+      .filter(topic => Boolean(topic.message && topic.message.value))
+      .slice(0, subtopicClearLimit)
+      .forEach((topic, idx) => {
+        const mqttMessage = {
+          topic: topic.path(),
+          payload: null,
+          retain: true,
+          qos: 0 as 0,
+        }
+        // Rate limit deletion
+        setTimeout(() => rendererEvents.emit(publishEvent, mqttMessage), 20 * idx)
+      })
+  }
+}