I am trying to sort struct in Go by its member which is of type time.Time. the structure is as follows.
type reviews_data struct {
review_id string
date time.Time
score int
firstname string
anonymous bool
review_text string
title_text string
rating float64
upcount int
}
I have the below functions for sorting
type timeSlice []reviews_data
// Forward request for length
func (p timeSlice) Len() int {
return len(p)
}
// Define compare
func (p timeSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
return p[i].date.Before(p[j].date)
}
// Define swap over an array
func (p timeSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
}
A map is defined as follows
var reviews_data_map = make(map[string]reviews_data)
After the map gets filled with values,sorting of the map by values is done as below
//Sort the map by date
date_sorted_reviews := make(timeSlice, 0, len(reviews_data_map))
for _, d := range reviews_data_map {
date_sorted_reviews = append(date_sorted_reviews, d)
}
sort.Sort(date_sorted_reviews)
The problem is that the result is not sorted.Can anyone tell me what the problem is.
It looks sorted to me:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
"time"
)
type reviews_data struct {
review_id string
date time.Time
score int
firstname string
anonymous bool
review_text string
title_text string
rating float64
upcount int
}
type timeSlice []reviews_data
func (p timeSlice) Len() int {
return len(p)
}
func (p timeSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
return p[i].date.Before(p[j].date)
}
func (p timeSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
}
func main() {
var reviews_data_map = make(map[string]reviews_data)
reviews_data_map["1"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now().Add(12 * time.Hour)}
reviews_data_map["2"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now()}
reviews_data_map["3"] = reviews_data{date: time.Now().Add(24 * time.Hour)}
//Sort the map by date
date_sorted_reviews := make(timeSlice, 0, len(reviews_data_map))
for _, d := range reviews_data_map {
date_sorted_reviews = append(date_sorted_reviews, d)
}
fmt.Println(date_sorted_reviews)
sort.Sort(date_sorted_reviews)
fmt.Println(date_sorted_reviews)
}
Output:
[{ {63393534000 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0} { {63393490800 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0} { {63393577200 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0}]
[{ {63393490800 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0} { {63393534000 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0} { {63393577200 0 0x1ba3e0} 0 false 0 0}]