TL;DR Somehow, I am appending a pointer to a list instead of the object within a for loop of objects so at the end the entire slice is composed of the same object multiple times. I just don't know how to fix that.
The Long Way
I am still having a super hard time trying to figure out pointers in go. I posted a question yesterday and got some help but now I am stuck on a slightly different issue in the same piece of code.
I am working with gocql
and cqlr
go packages to try and bit a small object mapper for my Cassandra queries. Essentially the problem I am having is I am appending what appears to be a pointer to an object, not a new instance of the obj to the array. How do I fix that? I have tried adding &
and *
in front of value
but that doesn't seem to work. How do I fix these? The bind function needs an &
according to their docs.
Code
type Query struct {
query string
values interface{}
attempts int
maxAttempts int
structType reflect.Type
}
func (query Query) RetryingQuery() (results []interface{}) {
var q *gocql.Query
if query.values != nil {
q = c.Session.Query(query.query, query.values)
} else {
q = c.Session.Query(query.query)
}
bindQuery := cqlr.BindQuery(q)
value := reflect.New(query.structType).Interface()
for bindQuery.Scan(value) {
fmt.Println(value)
results = append(results, value)
}
return
}
The docs ask for var value type
then in bind you would pass &value
. I quoted the docs below.
var t Tweet
var s []Tweet
for b.Scan(&t) {
// Application specific code goes here
append(s, t)
}
The issue is I cannot directly go var value query.structType
to define its type then pass the reference of that to bindQuery.Scan()
.
What is printed
&{result1 x86_64 24 3.2.0-74-generic Linux}
&{result2 x86_64 24 3.19.0-25-generic Linux}
&{result3 x86_64 4 3.13.0-48-generic Linux}
&{result4 x86_64 2 3.13.0-62-generic Linux}
&{result5 x86_64 4 3.13.0-48-generic Linux}
What is in the slice
Spoiler, it is result5
repeated over and over. I understand that I am just appending the pointer to same object to the list and that every loop iteration the object is changed and that changes all the results in the slice to that new object. I just don't know how to fix it.
[{"hostname":"result5","machine":"x86_64","num_cpus":4,"release":"3.13.0-48-generic","sysname":"Linux"},{"hostname":"result5","machine":"x86_64","num_cpus":4,"release":"3.13.0-48-generic","sysname":"Linux"},{"hostname":"result5","machine":"x86_64","num_cpus":4,"release":"3.13.0-48-generic","sysname":"Linux"},{"hostname":"result5","machine":"x86_64","num_cpus":4,"release":"3.13.0-48-generic","sysname":"Linux"},{"hostname":"result5","machine":"x86_64","num_cpus":4,"release":"3.13.0-48-generic","sysname":"Linux"}]