kitplummer
I’ve got a bit of a real world problem that I’m trying to teach myself through and am straight stuck. I’ve tried a handful of things to get to where I want to be…but just don’t have enough base knowledge to work through it. Obviously I could put this away and come back to it, but figure asking for a little help/tutoring is better. I’ve started with enumerating over a ‘categories’ list, then piping it into a Map.update, accumulating things but bah, didn’t get close.
Here’s the module:
defmodule Categories do
def categorize!(directory, categories) do
result = %{}
cat1 = find_types_for_cat(directory, categories[:cat1])
result =
if Kernel.length(cat1[:cat1]) > 0 do
Map.merge(result, cat1)
else
result
end
cat2 = find_types_for_cat(directory, categories[:cat2])
result =
if Kernel.length(cat2[:cat2]) > 0 do
Map.merge(result, cat2)
else
result
end
cat3 = find_types_for_cat(directory, categories[:cat3])
result =
if Kernel.length(cat3[:cat3]) > 0 do
Map.merge(result, cat3)
else
result
end
result
end
def find_types_for_cat(directory, category) do
%{category.name => Path.wildcard("#{directory}/**/#{Category.types_to_string(category)}")}
end
end
The struct:
defmodule Category do
alias __MODULE__
defstruct name: nil, types: []
def types_to_string(category) do
types = Enum.join(category.types, ",")
"{" <> types <> "}"
end
end
And here’s the tests:
defmodule CategoriesTest do
use ExUnit.Case, async: true
doctest Categories
setup_all do
category_one = %Category{name: :cat1, types: ["type1", "type1.1"]}
category_two = %Category{name: :cat2, types: ["type2", "type2.1"]}
category_three = %Category{name: :cat3, types: ["type3"]}
## TODO: Make this an extensible list of categories, no keys
cat_map = %{:cat1 => category_one, :cat2 => category_two, :cat3 => category_three}
[categories: cat_map]
end
describe "greets the world with bad Elixir" do
test "dir1", %{categories: categories} do
expected = %{
cat1: ["test/dirs/dir1/type1"]
}
assert Categories.categorize!("test/dirs/dir1", categories) == expected
end
test "dir2", %{categories: categories} do
expected = %{
cat1: ["test/dirs/dir2/subdir1/type1", "test/dirs/dir2/type1"],
cat2: ["test/dirs/dir2/subdir2/type2", "test/dirs/dir2/type2.1"]
}
assert Categories.categorize!("test/dirs/dir2", categories) == expected
end
test "dir3", %{categories: categories} do
expected = %{
cat1: ["test/dirs/dir3/subdir2/type1", "test/dirs/dir3/type1", "test/dirs/dir3/type1.1"],
cat2: ["test/dirs/dir3/subdir3/type2", "test/dirs/dir3/type2"],
cat3: ["test/dirs/dir3/subdir1/type3", "test/dirs/dir3/type3"]
}
assert Categories.categorize!("test/dirs/dir3", categories) == expected
end
end
end
I’ve also created a simple project to work on the problem if that’s easier to look at than pasted code blocks here.
Appreciate any help/guidance I can get. TIA.
Kit
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kokolegorille
When there is something repetitive like this, I tend to use Enum.reduce, or list comprehension…
This would look like this (pseudo code…and not tested)
BTW there is a missing iteration with categories because they can have multiple types, so You miss a piece here.
As You mention… it would be better to have a list of categories, and use Enum.filter on it instead of using a map. Something like…
kitplummer
This was step one. Have changed
categoriesto a List. And am getting closer withEnum.reduce()kitplummer
Got it working.
Categories module:
And the updated test:
Thanks for the pointer @kokolegorille - greatly appreciated. Will dig into Enum.reduce a bit more now.