package labels import "sort" type Label struct { Key, Value string } // The Labels type represents a set of labels, sorted by Key. type Labels []Label // Merge merges other with the current set, replacing any matching keys from other. func (ls *Labels) Merge(other Labels) { var list []Label i, j := 0, 0 for i < len(*ls) && j < len(other) { if (*ls)[i].Key < other[j].Key { list = append(list, (*ls)[i]) i++ } else if (*ls)[i].Key > other[j].Key { list = append(list, other[j]) j++ } else { // equal, then "other" replaces existing key list = append(list, other[j]) i++ j++ } } if i < len(*ls) { list = append(list, (*ls)[i:]...) } else if j < len(other) { list = append(list, other[j:]...) } *ls = list } // New takes an even number of strings representing key-value pairs // and creates a new slice of Labels. Duplicates are removed, however, // there is no guarantee which will be removed func New(args ...string) Labels { if len(args)%2 != 0 { panic("uneven number of arguments to label.Labels") } var labels Labels for i := 0; i+1 < len(args); i += 2 { labels = append(labels, Label{Key: args[i], Value: args[i+1]}) } sort.Slice(labels, func(i, j int) bool { return labels[i].Key < labels[j].Key }) // deduplicate // loop invariant: labels[:i] has no duplicates for i := 0; i < len(labels)-1; i++ { j := i + 1 // find all duplicate keys for j < len(labels) && labels[i].Key == labels[j].Key { j++ } d := (j - 1) - i // number of duplicate keys if d > 0 { // copy over duplicate keys in order to maintain loop invariant copy(labels[i+1:], labels[j:]) labels = labels[:len(labels)-d] } } return labels }