How to remove from an List Object in c# - linq

Question

I have an Action method in my controller which returns a List Object
Public ActionResult GetCats(long Id,string strsortorder,string dltIds)
{
var Result=objrepo.GetCats(Id);//this method returns me List of Result
}
My array looks like this:
var Result=[{CatId:1015,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1016,CatName:Acd},
{CatId:1017,CatName:Adf},{CatId:1018,CatName:CDdf},{CatId:1019,CatName:asdas},
{CatId:1020,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1021,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1022,CatName:Abc},
{CatId:1023,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1024,CatName:Abc}]
What I want to do is:
Using two more parameters in my Action Method "strsortorder" and "dltIds"
that have a list of ids like this:
strsortorder="1021,1015,1016,1019,1022";
dltIds="1017,1018,1020";
From this the "Result" returned from my method , I want to remove the records which are in "dltids" and the remaining array should be sorted in the order which I have in "strsortorder";
In the end the new object should look like this:
var NewResult=[{CatId:1021,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1015,CatName:Abc},
{CatId:1016,CatName:Acd},{CatId:1019,CatName:asdas},{CatId:1022,CatName:Abc},
{CatId:1023,CatName:Abc},{CatId:1024,CatName:Abc}]
Can any one help me in acheiving this in linq or any other way?
I want to avoid any type of loop or froeach here for max extent, I know it can be done by looping but I want to avoid this since the result can sometimes contain large amounts of data.

Answer 1

I realized you can use an ArrayList instead of a Dictionary and it would be faster. I think Dictionary is clear how it works but here is the "better" implementation using array list:
var excludeList = dltIds.Split(",".ToCharArray());
ArrayList sortList = new ArrayList(strsortorder.Split(",".ToCharArray()));
var NewResult =
Result.Where(item => ! excludeList.Contains(item.CatId.ToString()))
.OrderBy(item => {
if (sortList.Contains(item.CatId.ToString()))
return sortList.IndexOf(item.CatId.ToString());
return sortList.Count;
});
Original answer below:
Public ActionResult GetCats(long Id,string strsortorder,string dltIds)
{
var Result=objrepo.GetCats(Id);//this method returns me List of Result
var excludeList = dltIds.Split(",".ToCharArray());
int orderCount = 0; // used in the closure creating the Dictionary below
var sortList = strsortorder.Split(",".ToCharArray())
.ToDictionary(x => x,x => orderCount++);
// filter
var NewResult =
Result.Where(item => ! excludeList.Contains(item.CatId.ToString()))
.OrderBy(item => {
if (sortList.ContainsKey(item.CatId.ToString()))
return sortList[item.CatId.ToString()];
return sortList.Count();
});
}
How this works:
First I create lists out of your comma separated exclude list using split.
This I create a dictionary with the key being the ordering ID and the value being an integer that goes up by one.
For the filtering I look to see if an item is in the exclude array before I continue processing the item.
I then do a sort on matching against the key and the dictionary and returning the value -- this will sort things in the order of the list since I incremented a counter when creating the values. If an item is not in the dictionary I return one more than the maximum value in the dictionary which must be the count of the items. (I could have used the current value of orderCount instead.)
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