List as map

[arvenil]

Hi

ItemsAsMap is small addition to allow to get all items from a bucket as an indexed map. Without this I would need to reiterate through slice from Items()

Let me know what you think

[joyrexus]

Yeah, in an earlier incarnation of buckets I had a method called ItemsMap that did just this, but decided to drop it for two reasons:

1. You can build an indexed map pretty easily using the Map, MapPrefix, and MapRange methods, which should be just as performant. (I can sketch out an example gist if you'd like.) In many cases, you'd want to do it this way anyway so as to be able to cast the returned value in addition to casting the key as a string.
2. Since I'm using the term "Map" in a number of other methods and using it to mean "map over items" (i.e., the functional sense rather than the sense of a hash-like structure), I thought having an ItemsMap method was a little confusing.

In sum, to keep things simple and consistent (method name wise) I'd prefer not to add this in.

Perhaps I should add a few more examples demonstrating how to use the existing Map* methods?

[arvenil]

You are right. Map is fine to do that. Probably Items() was/is confusing to me as you use this one, then realize you need keys as indexes so you immediately think about ItemsWithKeyAsIndex(). Or, you know, now Items() looks redundant too as you can do the same with Map ;)

Perhaps I should add a few more examples demonstrating how to use the existing Map* methods?

As you wish - I'm good now :) Maybe there will be a future reader that is going to have similar thoughts, so an example for Map with comment "you can use it to produce indexed map like this" could work for him :)

Thanks for response :)