3 variable map in Go - go

Question

I am trying to make a 3 variable map in go so that you can do something like.
var postlist = make(map[int][int]bool)
postlist[postid][userid] = true
if postid[postid][userid] = true {
//do something
}
I have tried to make my own using a struct like
var postlist = make(map[int]cusmap)
type cusmap struct {
userid int
seen bool
}
but then I don't know how to check to check both the userid and seen bool condition.

Answer 1

I am not sure what you are trying to do, but a map is only a key/value. You can't have key/key/value. In order to do this, you need the value to be a map, so you would do:
http://play.golang.org/p/dOAXNAI4CO
package main
func main() {
var postlist = make(map[int]map[int]bool)
postid, userid := 0, 0
postlist[postid] = make(map[int]bool)
postlist[postid][userid] = true
if postlist[postid][userid] == true {
println("ok")
} else {
println("ko")
}
}

Answer 2

If you want to implement a set of int pairs, you can use a structure as the map key:
type postData struct {
userID int
postID int
}
Then make a map with postData keys and bool values:
postSet := map[postData]bool{
postData{1234, 7284}: true,
postData{7777, 1212}: true}
We can exploit the fact that if we give a non-existent index to the map, it will just return a zero-value.
For bool, the zero-value is false.
if postSet[postData{7777, 1212}] {
fmt.Println("post found.")
} else {
fmt.Println("no such post!")
}
Here's a full working example: http://play.golang.org/p/VJw9Vm8gHA

Answer 3

An alternative to #creack's approach is to define funcs on the map itself that way you don't have to manually check every time you want to set / unset something:
func main() {
cm := CustMap{}
pid, uid := 0, 0
cm.Set(pid, uid)
fmt.Println(cm.Exists(pid, uid))
fmt.Println(cm.Exists(pid, 10))
fmt.Println(cm.Exists(10, 10))
}
type CustMap map[int]map[int]struct{} //struct makes the map use 0 bytes for values instead of 1 bytes for bools, handy as the map grows
func (cm CustMap) Set(pid, uid int) {
if _, ok := cm[pid]; !ok {
cm[pid] = make(map[int]struct{})
}
cm[pid][uid] = struct{}{}
}
func (cm CustMap) Exists(pid, uid int) (ok bool) {
if u := cm[pid]; u != nil {
_, ok = u[uid]
}
return
}
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