I have a struct defined like this :
type Issues struct {
RedmineIssue string
GitlabIssue string
}
Then I get the list from the DB
database.Find(&Issues)
Then I have another array
redmineIssues []redmine.Issue
Is there any way to search issues in my array Issues that are also in the array redmineIssues base on field RedmineIssue ( string ) ?
Today here is what I'm doing
database.Find(&Issues)
redmineIssue := []string{}
for _, issueRedmine := range Issues {
redmineIssue = append(redmineIssue, issueRedmine.RedmineIssue)
}
gitlabissues := []string{}
for _, issueGitlab := range Issues {
gitlabissues = append(gitlabissues, issueGitlab.GitlabIssue)
}
Then I can compare with another array I have
for _, issueR := range IssueFromRedmineWS {
inArray, _ := in_array(issueR.Id, redmineIssue)
if !inArray {
// The issue is not in the DB
}
}
Any idea on how to optimize this and to make it cleaner?
A for loop is the right way to go. Assuming the code you pasted actually works, you can merge those into a single for loop, the way you have it written.
database.Find(&Issues)
redmineIssue := []string{}
gitlabissues := []string{}
for _, issue := range Issues {
redmineIssue = append(redmineIssue, issue.RedmineIssue)
gitlabissues = append(gitlabissues, issue.GitlabIssue)
}
But this assumes that Issues is an array. Which doesn't match the rest of your question. According to your stated definition of Issues, the code you posted won't even compile, though. So I don't know if this code will work for you, either.
You can provide another micro-optimization by pre-allocating the arrays:
database.Find(&Issues)
redmineIssue := make([]string{}, 0, len(Issues))
gitlabissues := make([]string{}, 0, len(Issues))
First of all, this is my first non-dummy program using Go. Any recommendation will be appreciated.
Code description:
I want to retrieve all the information from an API where the information is being paginated. So I want to iterate through all the pages in order to get all the information.
This is what I did so far:
I have the these two functions:
func request(requestData *RequestData) []*ProjectsResponse {
client := &http.Client{
Timeout: time.Second * 10,
}
projects := []*ProjectsResponse{}
innerRequest(client, requestData.URL, projects)
return projects
}
func innerRequest(client *http.Client, URL string, projects []*ProjectsResponse) {
if URL == "" {
return
}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", URL, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("Request creation failed with error %s\n", err)
}
req.Header.Add("Private-Token", os.Getenv("API_KEY"))
res, err := client.Do(req)
log.Printf("Executing request: %s", req.URL)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("The HTTP request failed with error %s\n", err)
}
data, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
var response ProjectsResponse
err = json.Unmarshal(data, &response)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("Unmarshalling failed with error %s\n", err)
}
projects = append(projects, &response)
pagingData := getPageInformation(res)
innerRequest(client, pagingData.NextLink, projects)
}
Undesired behavior:
The values in the projects []*ProjectsResponse array are being appended on each iteration of the recursion, but when the recursion ends I get an empty array list. So, somehow after the innerRequests ends, in the project variable inside the request method I get nothing.
Hope somebody and spot my mistake.
Thanks in advance.
I'm guessing that all of your project objects are scoped to the function so they no longer exist when the function ends. I don't think you need your projects to exist before you call innerRequest, so you should probably just have that method return the projects. I think something like this should work...
func innerRequest(client *http.Client, URL string) []*ProjectsResponse {
if URL == "" {
return nil
}
//More code...
pagingData := getPageInformation(res)
return append([]*ProjectsResponse{&response}, innerRequest(client, pagingData.NextLink)...)
}
The confusion lies in the way a slice is handled in Go. Here is the in-depth explanation, but I will abbreviate.
The common misconception is that the slice you pass around is a reference to the slice, which is false. The actual variable you operate on when you handle a slice is known as a slice header. This is a simple struct with a reference to the underlying array under the covers and follows Go's pass by value rules, i.e. it is copied when passed to a function. Thus, if it is not returned, you won't have the updated header.
Returning data from recursion follows a straightforward pattern. Here is a basic example. I'm also including a version that doesn't require a return, but operates on the slice as a reference, which will modify the original. (Note: Passing around slice pointers is generally not considered idiomatic Go)
Playground link: https://play.golang.org/p/v5XeYpH1VlF
// correct way to return from recursion
func addReturn(s []int) []int {
if finalCondition(s) {
return s
}
s = append(s, 1)
return addReturn(s)
}
// using a reference
func addReference(s *[]int) {
if finalCondition(*s) {
return
}
*s = append(*s, 1)
addReference(s)
}
// whatever terminates the recursion
func finalCondition(s []int) bool {
if len(s) >= 10 {
return true
}
return false
}
i'm learning structured text, to program with Cx-programmer, an Omron software.
i' ve looked around but i can't find a way to assign multiple element to an array,
i've tried this soluion, but it doesn't work,
this is Arrays declaration(internals variables):
Name Data type Initial value
SenCheck_Array BOOL[8] FALSE
SEN INT[2] 0
Array of INT:
SEN[1...2]:=[1,2];
Array of BOOL:
SenCheck_Array[0...7] := [ S_LF,S_LS,S_LH2O,S_LO,S_Col ,S_BAR,S_TAP,S_ET ] ;
The error is the same:
ERROR: Missing ]
i succeded in assigning element singularly, but i need to assign them in a single line.
Any help is apreciated:)
P.S: i'm using cx programmer educational edition.
Edit: This example (showing the declaration part of the SCL block code) is only valid for Siemens PLCs.
To initialize an array the values must be separated by a comma without square brackets:
CONST
// Constants
S_LF := TRUE;
S_LS := FALSE;
S_LH2O := FALSE;
S_LO := FALSE;
S_Col := TRUE;
S_BAR := TRUE;
S_TAP := TRUE;
S_ET := TRUE;
END_CONST
VAR
// Static Variables
SEN: ARRAY[1..2] OF INT := 1, 2;
SenCheck_Array: ARRAY[0..7] OF BOOL := S_LF, S_LS, S_LH2O, S_LO, S_Col , S_BAR, S_TAP, S_ET;
END_VAR
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...
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