package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func printArray(x [3]int) {
fmt.Printf("%d", x[1]);
// cannot convert "%d" (type untyped string) to type int
// invalid operation: "%d" + v (mismatched types string and int)
// for _, v := range x {
// fmt.Printf("%d" + v);
// }
}
func main() {
a := [3]int{1, 2, 3};
for _, v := range a {
fmt.Printf("%d\n", v);
}
printArray(a);
}
I can successfully print the array in the go method, but when I pass array into the method, it throws an error when it tries to print. What cause's the method to treat it differently then main method?
I see your error now. You are trying to concatenate or add the string and the int, instead of passing the two arguments to the function.
for _, v := range x {
fmt.Printf("%d" + v); // The error is in this line
}
It should be:
func printArray(x [3]int) {
for _, v := range x {
fmt.Printf("%d", v);
}
}
My Answer is not particularly related to this Question, But I had similar error and the way I solved is updating here, may be some future users may found helpful!
Got the same error for below Code: Here itemID is int
strSQL := "SELECT item_desc,item_sel_price FROM item_master WHERE item_id=" + itemID)
Solved by using fmt.Sprintf
strSQL := fmt.Sprintf("%s%d","SELECT item_desc,item_sel_price FROM item_master WHERE item_id=", itemID)
I have an array of interfaces like this :
type Test struct {
Name string
}
func main() {
result := []Test{
Test{Name: "ahmad"},
Test{Name: "reza"},
}
dump(result)
}
How can I dump this array and make a string like this:
Name
ahmad
reza
I want something like this but with arrays.
Update
I don't want to dump Test interface...
I want to dump every interfaces.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Test struct {
Name string
}
func main() {
result := []Test{
Test{Name: "ahmad"},
Test{Name: "reza"},
}
dump(result)
}
func dump(datasets interface{}) {
items := reflect.ValueOf(datasets)
if items.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
for i := 0; i < items.Len(); i++ {
item := items.Index(i)
if item.Kind() == reflect.Struct {
s := reflect.ValueOf(item)
t := reflect.TypeOf(item)
for j := 0; j < s.NumField(); j++ {
fmt.Println(t.Field(j).Name)
}
}
}
}
}
Something like this. But the result is :
typ
ptr
flag
typ
ptr
flag
How can I change output to :
Name
Name
Your example could really use more details but here is my best attempt at helping you based off what you've provided. I'm assuming the definition of dump is as follows;
func dump(items []interface{})
And that you are specifically looking to print the Name field on whatever is passed in, rather than say printing all fields on any object passed in.
func dump(items []interface{}) {
fmt.Println("Name")
for i := 0; i < len(items); i++ {
v := reflect.ValueOf(items[i])
name := v.FieldByName("Name")
fmt.Println(name.String())
}
}
Working example here; https://play.golang.org/p/zUBt6qkuok
If you instead want to print all fields that can be done with minor changes. Just add another loop inside of this where you iterate on j < v.NumField() and use v.Field(i) to get each field that's there. There are a lot of ways to structure your code at this level depending on what you want (like if you want to print FieldName1 followed by it's values then FieldName2 followed by it's values ect then your code would look quite different than if you weren't including the headers or printing each field on the current instance one after another). But these are details you'll have to worry about yourself or specify in an update to your question. Some good reading on the topic here; https://blog.golang.org/laws-of-reflection
Also the reflect packages docs are quite helpful.
I find a way !
package main
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Test struct {
Name string
}
func main() {
result := []Test{
Test{Name: "ahmad"},
Test{Name: "reza"},
}
dump(result)
}
func dump(datasets interface{}) {
items := reflect.ValueOf(datasets)
if items.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
for i := 0; i < items.Len(); i++ {
item := items.Index(i)
if item.Kind() == reflect.Struct {
v := reflect.Indirect(item)
for j := 0; j < v.NumField(); j++ {
fmt.Println(v.Type().Field(j).Name, v.Field(j).Interface())
}
}
}
}
}
https://play.golang.org/p/JUAnVoSAwc
Thanks.
I have an array of strings, and I'd like to exclude values that start in foo_ OR are longer than 7 characters.
I can loop through each element, run the if statement, and add it to a slice along the way. But I was curious if there was an idiomatic or more golang-like way of accomplishing that.
Just for example, the same thing might be done in Ruby as
my_array.select! { |val| val !~ /^foo_/ && val.length <= 7 }
There is no one-liner as you have it in Ruby, but with a helper function you can make it almost as short.
Here's our helper function that loops over a slice, and selects and returns only the elements that meet a criteria captured by a function value:
func filter(ss []string, test func(string) bool) (ret []string) {
for _, s := range ss {
if test(s) {
ret = append(ret, s)
}
}
return
}
Starting with Go 1.18, we can write it generic so it will work with all types, not just string:
func filter[T any](ss []T, test func(T) bool) (ret []T) {
for _, s := range ss {
if test(s) {
ret = append(ret, s)
}
}
return
}
Using this helper function your task:
ss := []string{"foo_1", "asdf", "loooooooong", "nfoo_1", "foo_2"}
mytest := func(s string) bool { return !strings.HasPrefix(s, "foo_") && len(s) <= 7 }
s2 := filter(ss, mytest)
fmt.Println(s2)
Output (try it on the Go Playground, or the generic version: Go Playground):
[asdf nfoo_1]
Note:
If it is expected that many elements will be selected, it might be profitable to allocate a "big" ret slice beforehand, and use simple assignment instead of the append(). And before returning, slice the ret to have a length equal to the number of selected elements.
Note #2:
In my example I chose a test() function which tells if an element is to be returned. So I had to invert your "exclusion" condition. Obviously you may write the helper function to expect a tester function which tells what to exclude (and not what to include).
Have a look at robpike's filter library. This would allow you to do:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"filter"
)
func isNoFoo7(a string) bool {
return ! strings.HasPrefix(a, "foo_") && len(a) <= 7
}
func main() {
a := []string{"test", "some_other_test", "foo_etc"}
result := Choose(a, isNoFoo7)
fmt.Println(result) // [test]
}
Interestingly enough the README.md by Rob:
I wanted to see how hard it was to implement this sort of thing in Go, with as nice an API as I could manage. It wasn't hard.
Having written it a couple of years ago, I haven't had occasion to use it once. Instead, I just use "for" loops.
You shouldn't use it either.
So the most idiomatic way according to Rob would be something like:
func main() {
a := []string{"test", "some_other_test", "foo_etc"}
nofoos := []string{}
for i := range a {
if(!strings.HasPrefix(a[i], "foo_") && len(a[i]) <= 7) {
nofoos = append(nofoos, a[i])
}
}
fmt.Println(nofoos) // [test]
}
This style is very similar, if not identical, to the approach any C-family language takes.
Today, I stumbled on a pretty idiom that surprised me. If you want to filter a slice in place without allocating, use two slices with the same backing array:
s := []T{
// the input
}
s2 := s
s = s[:0]
for _, v := range s2 {
if shouldKeep(v) {
s = append(s, v)
}
}
Here's a specific example of removing duplicate strings:
s := []string{"a", "a", "b", "c", "c"}
s2 := s
s = s[:0]
var last string
for _, v := range s2 {
if len(s) == 0 || v != last {
last = v
s = append(s, v)
}
}
If you need to keep both slices, simply replace s = s[:0] with s = nil or s = make([]T, 0, len(s)), depending on whether you want append() to allocate for you.
There are a couple of nice ways to filter a slice without allocations or new dependencies. Found in the Go wiki on Github:
Filter (in place)
n := 0
for _, x := range a {
if keep(x) {
a[n] = x
n++
}
}
a = a[:n]
And another, more readable, way:
Filtering without allocating
This trick uses the fact that a slice shares the same backing array
and capacity as the original, so the storage is reused for the
filtered slice. Of course, the original contents are modified.
b := a[:0]
for _, x := range a {
if f(x) {
b = append(b, x)
}
}
For elements which must be garbage collected, the following code can
be included afterwards:
for i := len(b); i < len(a); i++ {
a[i] = nil // or the zero value of T
}
One thing I'm not sure about is whether the first method needs clearing (setting to nil) the items in slice a after index n, like they do in the second method.
EDIT: the second way is basically what MicahStetson described in his answer. In my code I use a function similar to the following, which is probably as good as it gets in terms on performance and readability:
func filterSlice(slice []*T, keep func(*T) bool) []*T {
newSlice := slice[:0]
for _, item := range slice {
if keep(item) {
newSlice = append(newSlice, item)
}
}
// make sure discarded items can be garbage collected
for i := len(newSlice); i < len(slice); i++ {
slice[i] = nil
}
return newSlice
}
Note that if items in your slice are not pointers and don't contain pointers you can skip the second for loop.
There isn't an idiomatic way you can achieve the same expected result in Go in one single line as in Ruby, but with a helper function you can obtain the same expressiveness as in Ruby.
You can call this helper function as:
Filter(strs, func(v string) bool {
return strings.HasPrefix(v, "foo_") // return foo_testfor
}))
Here is the whole code:
package main
import "strings"
import "fmt"
// Returns a new slice containing all strings in the
// slice that satisfy the predicate `f`.
func Filter(vs []string, f func(string) bool) []string {
vsf := make([]string, 0)
for _, v := range vs {
if f(v) && len(v) > 7 {
vsf = append(vsf, v)
}
}
return vsf
}
func main() {
var strs = []string{"foo1", "foo2", "foo3", "foo3", "foo_testfor", "_foo"}
fmt.Println(Filter(strs, func(v string) bool {
return strings.HasPrefix(v, "foo_") // return foo_testfor
}))
}
And the running example: Playground
you can use the loop as you did and wrap it to a utils function for reuse.
For multi-datatype support, copy-paste will be a choice. Another choice is writing a generating tool.
And final option if you want to use lib, you can take a look on https://github.com/ledongthuc/goterators#filter that I created to reuse aggregate & transform functions.
It requires the Go 1.18 to use that support generic + dynamic type you want to use with.
filteredItems, err := Filter(list, func(item int) bool {
return item % 2 == 0
})
filteredItems, err := Filter(list, func(item string) bool {
return item.Contains("ValidWord")
})
filteredItems, err := Filter(list, func(item MyStruct) bool {
return item.Valid()
})
It also supports Reduce in case you want to optimize the way you select.
Hope it's useful with you!
"Select Elements from Array" is also commonly called a filter function. There's no such thing in go. There are also no other "Collection Functions" such as map or reduce. For the most idiomatic way to get the desired result, I find https://gobyexample.com/collection-functions a good reference:
[...] in Go it’s common to provide collection functions if and when they are specifically needed for your program and data types.
They provide an implementation example of the filter function for strings:
func Filter(vs []string, f func(string) bool) []string {
vsf := make([]string, 0)
for _, v := range vs {
if f(v) {
vsf = append(vsf, v)
}
}
return vsf
}
However, they also say, that it's often ok to just inline the function:
Note that in some cases it may be clearest to just inline the
collection-manipulating code directly, instead of creating and calling
a helper function.
In general, golang tries to only introduce orthogonal concepts, meaning that when you can solve a problem one way, there shouldn't be too many more ways to solve it. This adds simplicity to the language by only having a few core concepts, such that not every developer uses a different subset of the language.
Take a look at this library: github.com/thoas/go-funk
It provides an implementation of a lot of life-saving idioms in Go (including filtering of elements in array for instance).
r := funk.Filter([]int{1, 2, 3, 4}, func(x int) bool {
return x%2 == 0
}
Here is an elegant example of both Fold and Filter that uses recursion to accomplish filtering. FoldRight is also generally useful. It is not stack safe but could be made so with trampolining. Once Golang has generics it can be entirely generalized for any 2 types:
func FoldRightStrings(as, z []string, f func(string, []string) []string) []string {
if len(as) > 1 {//Slice has a head and a tail.
h, t := as[0], as[1:len(as)]
return f(h, FoldRightStrings(t, z, f))
} else if len(as) == 1 {//Slice has a head and an empty tail.
h := as[0]
return f(h, FoldRightStrings([]string{}, z, f))
}
return z
}
func FilterStrings(as []string, p func(string) bool) []string {
var g = func(h string, accum []string) []string {
if p(h) {
return append(accum, h)
} else {
return accum
}
}
return FoldRightStrings(as, []string{}, g)
}
Here is an example of its usage to filter out all the strings with length < 8
var p = func(s string) bool {
if len(s) < 8 {
return true
} else {
return false
}
}
FilterStrings([]string{"asd","asdfas","asdfasfsa","asdfasdfsadfsadfad"}, p)
I`m developing this library: https://github.com/jose78/go-collection. PLease try this example to filter elements:
package main
import (
"fmt"
col "github.com/jose78/go-collection/collections"
)
type user struct {
name string
age int
id int
}
func main() {
newMap := generateMapTest()
if resultMap, err := newMap.FilterAll(filterEmptyName); err != nil {
fmt.Printf("error")
} else {
fmt.Printf("Result: %v\n", resultMap)
result := resultMap.ListValues()
fmt.Printf("Result: %v\n", result)
fmt.Printf("Result: %v\n", result.Reverse())
fmt.Printf("Result: %v\n", result.JoinAsString(" <---> "))
fmt.Printf("Result: %v\n", result.Reverse().JoinAsString(" <---> "))
result.Foreach(simpleLoop)
err := result.Foreach(simpleLoopWithError)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
}
func filterEmptyName(key interface{}, value interface{}) bool {
user := value.(user)
return user.name != "empty"
}
func generateMapTest() (container col.MapType) {
container = col.MapType{}
container[1] = user{"Alvaro", 6, 1}
container[2] = user{"Sofia", 3, 2}
container[3] = user{"empty", 0, -1}
return container
}
var simpleLoop col.FnForeachList = func(mapper interface{}, index int) {
fmt.Printf("%d.- item:%v\n", index, mapper)
}
var simpleLoopWithError col.FnForeachList = func(mapper interface{}, index int) {
if index > 0 {
panic(fmt.Sprintf("Error produced with index == %d\n", index))
}
fmt.Printf("%d.- item:%v\n", index, mapper)
}
Result of execution:
Result: map[1:{Alvaro 6 1} 2:{Sofia 3 2}]
Result: [{Sofia 3 2} {Alvaro 6 1}]
Result: [{Alvaro 6 1} {Sofia 3 2}]
Result: {Sofia 3 2} <---> {Alvaro 6 1}
Result: {Alvaro 6 1} <---> {Sofia 3 2}
0.- item:{Sofia 3 2}
1.- item:{Alvaro 6 1}
0.- item:{Sofia 3 2}
Recovered in f Error produced with index == 1
ERROR: Error produced with index == 1
Error produced with index == 1
The DOC currently are located in wiki section of the project. You can try it in this link. I hope you like it...
REgaRDS...
I want to return a structure that looks like this:
{
results: [
["ooid1", 2.0, "Söme text"],
["ooid2", 1.3, "Åther text"],
]
}
That's an array of arrags that is string, floating point number, unicode character.
If it was Python I'd be able to:
import json
json.dumps({'results': [["ooid1", 2.0, u"Söme text"], ...])
But in Go you can't have an array (or slice) of mixed types.
I thought of using a struct like this:
type Row struct {
Ooid string
Score float64
Text rune
}
But I don't want each to become a dictionary, I want it to become an array of 3 elements each.
We can customize how an object is serialized by implementing the json.Marshaler interface. For our particular case, we seem to have a slice of Row elements that we want to encode as an array of heterogenous values. We can do so by defining a MarshalJSON function on our Row type, using an intermediate slice of interface{} to encode the mixed values.
This example demonstrates:
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
type Row struct {
Ooid string
Score float64
Text string
}
func (r *Row) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
arr := []interface{}{r.Ooid, r.Score, r.Text}
return json.Marshal(arr)
}
func main() {
rows := []Row{
{"ooid1", 2.0, "Söme text"},
{"ooid2", 1.3, "Åther text"},
}
marshalled, _ := json.Marshal(rows)
fmt.Println(string(marshalled))
}
Of course, we also might want to go the other way around, from JSON bytes back to structs. So there's a similar json.Unmarshaler interface that we can use.
func (r *Row) UnmarshalJSON(bs []byte) error {
arr := []interface{}{}
json.Unmarshal(bs, &arr)
// TODO: add error handling here.
r.Ooid = arr[0].(string)
r.Score = arr[1].(float64)
r.Text = arr[2].(string)
return nil
}
This uses a similar trick of first using an intermediate slice of interface{}, using the unmarshaler to place values into this generic container, and then plop the values back into our structure.
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
type Row struct {
Ooid string
Score float64
Text string
}
func (r *Row) UnmarshalJSON(bs []byte) error {
arr := []interface{}{}
json.Unmarshal(bs, &arr)
// TODO: add error handling here.
r.Ooid = arr[0].(string)
r.Score = arr[1].(float64)
r.Text = arr[2].(string)
return nil
}
func main() {
rows := []Row{}
text := `
[
["ooid4", 3.1415, "pi"],
["ooid5", 2.7182, "euler"]
]
`
json.Unmarshal([]byte(text), &rows)
fmt.Println(rows)
}
You can read a full example here.
Use []interface{}
type Results struct {
Rows []interface{} `json:"results"`
}
You will then have to use type assertion if you want to access the values stored in []interface{}
for _, row := range results.Rows {
switch r := row.(type) {
case string:
fmt.Println("string", r)
case float64:
fmt.Println("float64", r)
case int64:
fmt.Println("int64", r)
default:
fmt.Println("not found")
}
}
Some clumsy, but you can
type result [][]interface{}
type results struct {
Results result
}
Working example https://play.golang.org/p/IXAzZZ3Dg7