[erlang-questions] Converting list of tagged tuples to a record

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

I would like to know if there is a simple way to handle backwards
compatible changes? My interfaces tend to evolve so that there is no
longer a one to one mapping from the properties to the record. Ex: the
boolean property is_receive has been replaced with {direction , "send" |
"receive"} and the internal record only has member 'direction', but old
programs that have is_receive is still in use.


bengt

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:56 +0200, Evans, Matthew wrote:
> Using a preprocessor is another, perhaps more generic way of doing it.
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> %% The record
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> -record(person, {first_name, last_name, ...}).
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> %% Create a preprocessor
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> -define(PERSON_RECORD,record_info(fields, person)).
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> %% Function that will convert a list of tuples to the record
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> create_record_from_list([],_Data,Result) ->
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>     erlang:list_to_tuple(Result);
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> create_record_from_list([Field|Rest],Data,Result) ->
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>     case lists:keysearch(Field,1,Data) of
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>         {value,{_,Value}} ->
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>             create_record_from_list(Rest,Data,lists:append(Result,[Value]));
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>         _ ->
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>             create_record_from_list(Rest,Data,lists:append(Result,[undefined]))
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>     end.
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> Then to convert the list of tuples "DataList" to a record call:
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> Record = create_record_from_list(?PERSON_RECORD,DataList,[person]),
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> Or something like that :)
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> 
> 
> Matt
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Silas Silva
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:24 AM
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: [erlang-questions] Converting list of tagged tuples to a record
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all,
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> 
> 
> In my newbie application, I receive a bunch of data from HTTP's POST
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> (I'm using Mochiweb), in the following format (supposing a person's
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> data):
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> 
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>     [{first_name, value}, {last_name, value}, ...]
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> 
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> And I have the definition of the record for the person:
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> 
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>     -record(person, {first_name, last_name, ...}).
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> 
> 
> alistair in the #erlang channel in freenode, gave me a nice solution to
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> put this list in the record:
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> 
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>     lists:foldl(fun add_to_record/2, #person{}, List).
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> 
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>     add_to_record({first_name, value}, rec) ->
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>         rec#person{first_name = value};
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> 
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>     add_to_record({last_name, value}, rec) ->
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>         rec#person{last_name = value};
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> 
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>     ...
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> 
> 
> That works.  My questions are:
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> 
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> 1. Are there other [good practice] ways to transform information coming
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>    from a UI (which, must of the times, come as a list) in well
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>    specified records?
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> 
> 2. Is it common to use records of records?  Is it possible?  For example:
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>     -record(name, {last_name, first_name}).
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>     -record(person, name, ...)
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> 
> Thanks!
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> 
> 
> --
> 
> Silas Silva
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> 
> 
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