// cars.go package main import ( "fmt" ) type Any interface{} type Car struct { Model string Manufacturer string BuildYear int // ... } type Cars []*Car func main() { // make some cars: ford := &Car{"Fiesta", "Ford", 2008} bmw := &Car{"XL 450", "BMW", 2011} merc := &Car{"D600", "Mercedes", 2009} bmw2 := &Car{"X 800", "BMW", 2008} // query: allCars := Cars([]*Car{ford, bmw, merc, bmw2}) allNewBMWs := allCars.FindAll(func(car *Car) bool { return (car.Manufacturer == "BMW") && (car.BuildYear > 2010) }) fmt.Println("AllCars: ", allCars) fmt.Println("New BMWs: ", allNewBMWs) // manufacturers := []string{"Ford", "Aston Martin", "Land Rover", "BMW", "Jaguar"} sortedAppender, sortedCars := MakeSortedAppender(manufacturers) allCars.Process(sortedAppender) fmt.Println("Map sortedCars: ", sortedCars) BMWCount := len(sortedCars["BMW"]) fmt.Println("We have ", BMWCount, " BMWs") } // Process all cars with the given function f: func (cs Cars) Process(f func(car *Car)) { for _, c := range cs { f(c) } } // Find all cars matching a given criteria. func (cs Cars) FindAll(f func(car *Car) bool) Cars { cars := make([]*Car, 0) cs.Process(func(c *Car) { if f(c) { cars = append(cars, c) } }) return cars } // Process cars and create new data. func (cs Cars) Map(f func(car *Car) Any) []Any { result := make([]Any, 0) ix := 0 cs.Process(func(c *Car) { result[ix] = f(c) ix++ }) return result } func MakeSortedAppender(manufacturers []string) (func(car *Car), map[string]Cars) { // Prepare maps of sorted cars. sortedCars := make(map[string]Cars) for _, m := range manufacturers { sortedCars[m] = make([]*Car, 0) } sortedCars["Default"] = make([]*Car, 0) // Prepare appender function: appender := func(c *Car) { if _, ok := sortedCars[c.Manufacturer]; ok { sortedCars[c.Manufacturer] = append(sortedCars[c.Manufacturer], c) } else { sortedCars["Default"] = append(sortedCars["Default"], c) } } return appender, sortedCars } /* Output: AllCars: [0xf8400038a0 0xf840003bd0 0xf840003ba0 0xf840003b70] New BMWs: [0xf840003bd0] Map sortedCars: map[Default:[0xf840003ba0] Jaguar:[] Land Rover:[] BMW:[0xf840003bd0 0xf840003b70] Aston Martin:[] Ford:[0xf8400038a0]] We have 2 BMWs */