How do I reverse an arbitrary slice ([]interface{}
) in Go? I'd rather not have to write Less
and Swap
to use sort.Reverse
. Is there a simple, builtin way to do this?
There is not a simple, built-in for reversing a slice of interface{}. You can write a for loop to do it:
for i, j := 0, len(s)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
}
The reflect.Swapper function introduced in Go 1.8 can be used to write a generic reversing function:
func reverseAny(s interface{}) {
n := reflect.ValueOf(s).Len()
swap := reflect.Swapper(s)
for i, j := 0, n-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
swap(i, j)
}
}
There are my code example, you can run it in playground
package main
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
"errors"
)
func ReverseSlice(data interface{}) {
value := reflect.ValueOf(data)
if value.Kind() != reflect.Slice {
panic(errors.New("data must be a slice type"))
}
valueLen := value.Len()
for i := 0; i <= int((valueLen-1)/2); i++ {
reverseIndex := valueLen - 1 - i
tmp := value.Index(reverseIndex).Interface()
value.Index(reverseIndex).Set(value.Index(i))
value.Index(i).Set(reflect.ValueOf(tmp))
}
}
func main() {
names := []string{"bob", "mary", "sally", "michael"}
ReverseSlice(names)
fmt.Println(names)
}