This sort of thing:
Dim MatchingValues() As Integer = {5, 6, 7}
Return From e in context.entity
Where MatchingValues.Contains(e.Id)
...works great. However, in my case, the values in MatchingValues are provided by the user. If none are provided, all rows ought to be returned. It would be wonderful if I could do this:
Return From e in context.entity
Where (MatchingValues.Length = 0) OrElse (MatchingValues.Contains(e.Id))
Alas, the array length test cannot be converted to SQL. I could, of course, code this:
If MatchingValues.Length = 0 Then
Return From e in context.entity
Else
Return From e in context.entity
Where MatchingValues.Contains(e.Id)
End If
This solution doesn't scale well. My application needs to work with 5 such lists, which means I'd need to code 32 queries, one for every situation.
I could also fill MatchingValues with every existing value when the user doesn't want to use the filter. However, there could be thousands of values in each of the five lists. Again, that's not optimal.
There must be a better way. Ideas?
Give this a try: (Sorry for the C# code, but you get the idea)
IQueryable<T> query = context.Entity;
if (matchingValues.Length < 0) {
query = query.Where(e => matchingValues.Contains(e.Id));
}
You could do this with the other lists aswell.
Related
So lets say we have an array a = [20,50,100,200,500,1000]
Generally speaking we could do for number in a { print(a) } if we wanted to check the entirety of a.
How can you limit what indexes are checked? As in have a set beginning and end index (b, and e respectively), and limit the values of number that are checked to between b and e?
For an example, in a, if b is set to 1, and e is set to 4, then only a1 through a[4] are checked.
I tried doing for number in a[b...e] { print(number) }, I also saw here someone do this,
for j in 0..<n { x[i] = x[j]}, which works if we want just a ending.
This makes me think I can do something like for number in b..<=e { print(a[number]) }
Is this correct?
I'm practicing data structures in Swift and this is one of the things I've been struggling with. Would really appreciate an explanation!
Using b..<=e is not the correct syntax. You need to use Closed Range Operator ... instead, i.e.
for number in b...e {
print(a[number])
}
And since you've already tried
for number in a[b...e] {
print(number)
}
There is nothing wrong with the above syntax as well. You can use it either way.
An array has a subscript that accepts a Range: array[range] and returns a sub-array.
A range of integers can be defined as either b...e or b..<e (There are other ways as well), but not b..<=e
A range itself is a sequence (something that supports a for-in loop)
So you can either do
for index in b...e {
print(a[index])
}
or
for number in a[b...e] {
print(number)
}
In both cases, it is on you to ensure that b...e are valid indices into the array.
Is it possible to perform a dynamic "where/filter" in a dataframe ?
I am running a "like" operation to remove items that match specific strings
eventsDF.where(
~eventsDF.myColumn.like('FirstString%') &
~eventsDF.myColumn.like('anotherString%')
).count()
However I need to filter based on strings that come from another dataframe/list.
The solution that I was going for (which doesn't really work) involves a function that receives an index
#my_func[0] = "FirstString"
#my_func[1] = "anotherString"
def my_func(n):
return str(item[n])
newDf.where(
~newDf.useragent.like(str(my_func(1))+'%')
).count()
but I'm struggling to make it work by passing a range (mainly because it's a list instead of an integer)
newDf.where(
~newDf.useragent.like(str(my_func([i for i in range(2)])+'%'))
).count()
I don't want to go down the path of using "exec" or "eval" to perform it
str_likes = [~df.column.like(s) for s in strings] then reduce it into one expression reduce(lambda x, y: x & y, str_likes)
It's a little bit ugly but does what you want. You can also do this in a for loop like so
bool_expr = ~df.column.like(strings[0])
for s in strings[1:]:
bool_expr &= ~df.column.like(s)
df.where(bool_expr).count()
New to Scala. I'm iterating a for loop 100 times. 10 times I want condition 'a' to be met and 90 times condition 'b'. However I want the 10 a's to occur at random.
The best way I can think is to create a val of 10 random integers, then loop through 1 to 100 ints.
For example:
val z = List.fill(10)(100).map(scala.util.Random.nextInt)
z: List[Int] = List(71, 5, 2, 9, 26, 96, 69, 26, 92, 4)
Then something like:
for (i <- 1 to 100) {
whenever i == to a number in z: 'Condition a met: do something'
else {
'condition b met: do something else'
}
}
I tried using contains and == and =! but nothing seemed to work. How else can I do this?
Your generation of random numbers could yield duplicates... is that OK? Here's how you can easily generate 10 unique numbers 1-100 (by generating a randomly shuffled sequence of 1-100 and taking first ten):
val r = scala.util.Random.shuffle(1 to 100).toList.take(10)
Now you can simply partition a range 1-100 into those who are contained in your randomly generated list and those who are not:
val (listOfA, listOfB) = (1 to 100).partition(r.contains(_))
Now do whatever you want with those two lists, e.g.:
println(listOfA.mkString(","))
println(listOfB.mkString(","))
Of course, you can always simply go through the list one by one:
(1 to 100).map {
case i if (r.contains(i)) => println("yes: " + i) // or whatever
case i => println("no: " + i)
}
What you consider to be a simple for-loop actually isn't one. It's a for-comprehension and it's a syntax sugar that de-sugares into chained calls of maps, flatMaps and filters. Yes, it can be used in the same way as you would use the classical for-loop, but this is only because List is in fact a monad. Without going into too much details, if you want to do things the idiomatic Scala way (the "functional" way), you should avoid trying to write classical iterative for loops and prefer getting a collection of your data and then mapping over its elements to perform whatever it is that you need. Note that collections have a really rich library behind them which allows you to invoke cool methods such as partition.
EDIT (for completeness):
Also, you should avoid side-effects, or at least push them as far down the road as possible. I'm talking about the second example from my answer. Let's say you really need to log that stuff (you would be using a logger, but println is good enough for this example). Doing it like this is bad. Btw note that you could use foreach instead of map in that case, because you're not collecting results, just performing the side effects.
Good way would be to compute the needed stuff by modifying each element into an appropriate string. So, calculate the needed strings and accumulate them into results:
val results = (1 to 100).map {
case i if (r.contains(i)) => ("yes: " + i) // or whatever
case i => ("no: " + i)
}
// do whatever with results, e.g. print them
Now results contains a list of a hundred "yes x" and "no x" strings, but you didn't do the ugly thing and perform logging as a side effect in the mapping process. Instead, you mapped each element of the collection into a corresponding string (note that original collection remains intact, so if (1 to 100) was stored in some value, it's still there; mapping creates a new collection) and now you can do whatever you want with it, e.g. pass it on to the logger. Yes, at some point you need to do "the ugly side effect thing" and log the stuff, but at least you will have a special part of code for doing that and you will not be mixing it into your mapping logic which checks if number is contained in the random sequence.
(1 to 100).foreach { x =>
if(z.contains(x)) {
// do something
} else {
// do something else
}
}
or you can use a partial function, like so:
(1 to 100).foreach {
case x if(z.contains(x)) => // do something
case _ => // do something else
}
How do I sum different fields? I want to sum all of the information for material(1) ...so I want to add 5+4+6+300 but I am unsure how. Like is there another way besides just doing material(1).May + material(1).June etc....
material(1).May= 5;
material(1).June=4;
material(1).July=6;
material(1).price=300;
material(2).May=10;
material(2).price=550;
material(3).May=90;
You can use structfun for this:
result = sum( structfun(#(x)x, material(1)) );
The inner portion (structfun(#(x)x, material(1))) runs a function each individual field in the structure, and returns the results in an array. By using the identity function (#(x)x) we just get the values. sum of course does the obvious thing.
A slightly longer way to do this is to access each field in a loop. For example:
fNames = fieldnames(material(1));
accumulatedValue = 0;
for ix = 1:length(fNames)
accumulatedValue = accumulatedValue + material(1).(fNames{ix});
end
result = accumulatedValue
For some users this will be easier to read, although for expert users the first will be easier to read. The result and (approximate) performance are the same.
I think Pursuit's answer is very good, but here is an alternative off the top of my head:
sum( cell2mat( struct2cell( material(1) )));
I'm trying to excecute a cypher query for a no4j database on gwt.
I stored in some nodes int values as property detail. If I'm using neoclipe right, I noticed now, that this values are stored in the database as String values.
In my query I have the following part which does not work:
START ...
MATCH node-[:SomeTag]->intnode
WHERE intnode.detail < 10
RETURN ...
and I get:
Don't know how to compare that. Left: 15; Right: 10: Don't know how to compare that: Left: 15; Right: 10
So intnode.detail < 10 does not work. I also tried this: intnode.detail < STR(10), because I thought it will compare the hash values or ascii values, but I got the same error.
EDIT:
I read, that it is possible to set the #GraphProperty while storing data, but how can I do that in gwt?
I mean if I have a node and I could e.g. write
Object obj = (Object) 10;
node.setProperty("detail", obj);
How can I now tell neo4j, that obj is an int?
This answer is mostly focused on your initial question - not on the question you´ve added in the EDIT-part.
I just had a similar problem with a comparison inside the WHERE-part of a cypher query. I tried to do something like
MATCH ...
WHERE value > 1
which caused an error message very similar to yours. After some testing I´ve found out that the query works, if I add single quotes. This is my solution:
MATCH ...
WHERE value > '1'
(note the quotes)
Ive also noticed, that this doesnt work with double quotes
I hope this helps you and/or anyone else who encounters this problem :)
I think the intnode.detail value in stored as string , so you wont able to compare with integer value.
You have to do like this
START ...
MATCH node-[:SomeTag]->intnode
WHERE intnode.detail < "10"
RETURN ...