Mapping Gorm queries to lists of structs - go

Question

Go here, using gorm to help me with database stuff.
I have the following function which is working for me:
func (d DbPersister) FetchOrderById(orderId string) (Order,error) {
order := &Order{}
if err := d.GormDB.Table("orders").
Select(`orders`.`order_id`,
`orders`.`quantity`,
`addresses`.`line_1`,
`addresses`.`state`,
`addresses`.`zip`).
Joins("join addresses on addresses.address_id = orders._address_id").
Where("orders.order_id = ?", orderId).
First(order).Error; err != nil {
return Order{}, err
}
return *order,nil
}
So, you give it an orderId, and it fetches that from the DB and maps it to an Order instance.
I now want to look up all a particular user's orders:
func (d DbPersister) FetchAllOrdersByCustomerId(userId string) ([]Order,error) {
orders := []&Order{}
if err := d.GormDB.Table("orders").
Select(`orders`.`order_id`,
`orders`.`quantity`,
`orders`.`status`,
`addresses`.`line_1`,
`addresses`.`state`,
`addresses`.`zip`).
Joins("join addresses on addresses.address_id = orders.shipping_address_id").
Joins("join users on users.user_id = orders.user_id").
Where("users.user_id = ?", userId).
First(orders).Error; err != nil {
return []Order{}, err
}
return orders,nil
}
However, I'm getting compiler errors. I don't believe First(orders) is the correct function to be calling here. Basically do a join between orders and users and give me all of a particular user's orders, which should be a list of Order instances. Can anyone spot where I'm going awry?

Answer 1

Firstly orders := []&Order{} should be orders := make([]Order,0)
Then use Find() instead of First() to get multiple values.
For structs, slices, maps, and other composite types, if no data is contained you can return nil
So your code should be
func (d DbPersister) FetchAllOrdersByCustomerId(userId string) ([]Order,error) {
orders := make([]Order,0)
if err := d.GormDB.Table("orders").
Select(`orders`.`order_id`,
`orders`.`quantity`,
`orders`.`status`,
`addresses`.`line_1`,
`addresses`.`state`,
`addresses`.`zip`).
Joins("join addresses on addresses.address_id = orders.shipping_address_id").
Joins("join users on users.user_id = orders.user_id").
Where("users.user_id = ?", userId).
Find(&orders).Error; err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return orders,nil
}