Deprecated

With the release of Go 1.18, this entire package can thankfully be replaced with the functions demonstrated below:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "golang.org/x/exp/maps"
)

func ContainsKey[K, V comparable](m map[K]V, target V) bool {
    for _, v := range m {
        if v == target {
            return true
        }
    }
    return false
}

func main() {
    m := map[string]int{
        "a": 1,
        "b": 2,
        "c": 3,
    }
    fmt.Println(maps.Keys(m))
    fmt.Println(maps.Values(m))

    m2 := map[string]int{}
    maps.Copy(m2, m)
    fmt.Println(maps.Keys(m2))
    fmt.Println(maps.Values(m2))

    fmt.Println(ContainsKey(m2, 3))
    fmt.Println(ContainsKey(m2, 4))
}

Installation

go get https://github.com/drgrib/maps

Purpose

This package provides type-safe implementations of "missing" map functions:

• ContainsKey - check if map contains key
• ContainsValue - check if map contains value
• GetKeys - get keys of a map
• GetValues - get values of a map
• Copy - deep copy of a map

implemented with these patterns

• ContainsKeyKV(map[ktype]vtype, k ktype) bool
• ContainsValueKV(map[ktype]vtype, v vtype) bool
• GetKeysKV(map[ktype]vtype) []ktype
• GetValuesKV(map[ktype]vtype) []vtype
• CopyKV(map[ktype]vtype) map[ktype]vtype

where K and V are the key and value for maps combining Go basic types, including but not limited to:

• StringString
• StringInt
• IntString
• StringFloat32
• StringFloat64
• Float32Bool
• Float64Bool
• IntBool
• StringBool

Generation

The package extends beyond implementing these functions only for these basic type pairings. You can generate them for any map type, including maps with keys and values that are pointers, custom types, or interface{}.

There are two ways to do this. One is by installing and calling the mapper tool, which can be considered a sort of sibling to the stringer tool. The other is programmatically by using the maptemplate library called within the source code of mapper and the code used to generate the basic type map functions in this package.

mapper

mapper can be installed using

go get -u github.com/drgrib/maps/cmd/mapper

Then used with the go generate like this:

//go:generate mapper -types string:CustomType

Or directly on the commandline with the same command:

mapper -types string:CustomType

Which will generate the file map_string_customtype.go that infers its package from surrounding .go files or the current folder name if no other files are found:

package maps

func ContainsKeyStringCustomType(m map[string]CustomType, k string) bool {
	_, ok := m[k]
	return ok
}

func ContainsValueStringCustomType(m map[string]CustomType, v CustomType) bool {
	for _, mValue := range m {
		if mValue == v {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}

func GetKeysStringCustomType(m map[string]CustomType) []string {
	keys := []string{}

	for k, _ := range m {
		keys = append(keys, k)
	}

	return keys
}

func GetValuesStringCustomType(m map[string]CustomType) []CustomType {
	values := []CustomType{}

	for _, v := range m {
		values = append(values, v)
	}

	return values
}

func CopyStringCustomType(m map[string]CustomType) map[string]CustomType {
	copyMap := map[string]CustomType{}

	for k, v := range m {
		copyMap[k] = v
	}

	return copyMap
}

About Generics

If generics are implemented for Go 2.0, these functions can be covered by a single file, without the need for the mapper tool and its underlying generation packages. Until then, there is this package.