(def categories [ [ { :id 1 :text "foo" } { :id 2 :text "bar" :ack 5 } ] [ { :id 3 :age 7 } ] ]) #'user/categories (update-in categories [1 0] merge { :age 12 :somethingElse 29 }) [[{:text "foo", :id 1} {:text "bar", :ack 5, :id 2}] [{:age 12, :somethingElse 29, :id 3}]]
On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8:54:58 AM UTC-6, Erik Price wrote: > > Many functions that affect keyed collections will work on vectors if you > supply the numeric index as a key. > > e > > On Monday, January 26, 2015, Josh Stratton <stratto...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm new to clojure and FP in general. One thing that has always been a >> little confusing for me is working with immutable trees. I have a vector >> of categories, each category containing a vector of items--each one a >> hashmap. In that hashmap I have a bunch of attributes including an >> item-id. Now, assuming I have an item id, what's the easiest way to update >> the appropriate hashmap? I can't use an assoc, I believe, because my data >> is in a vector--not keyed by the id. >> >> What I have been doing is writing a function that maps the categories to >> new categories and then write another function that is called on every item >> and updates it iff the item id matches. This works, but it seems really >> clunky and I'm assuming there's a simpler way to do it. >> >> ; categories is a vector of item vectors, where the item is a hash >> (def categories [ [ { :id 1 :text "foo" } { :id 2 :text "bar" :ack 5 } ] >> [ { :id 3 :age 7 } ] ]) >> >> Is there a more elegant workflow for updating categories? Let's say I >> want to update item of id 3 with { :age 12 :somethingElse 29 }, what's the >> easiest way to do this? >> >> ; so the return would be >> [ [ { :id 1 :text "foo" } { :id 2 :text "bar" :ack 5 } ] [ { :id 3 :age >> 12 :somethingElse 29 } ] ] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.