A motivating example:
Implementing various scheduling "strategies", which sort a list of Jobs.
type Job struct {
weight int
length int
}
// Given a slice of Jobs, re-order them.
type Strategy func([]Job) []Job
func Schedule(jobs []Job, strat Strategy) []Job {
return strat(jobs)
}
One very simple strategy is to execute the shortest jobs first (disregarding their weight/priority).
func MinCompletionTimes(job []Job) []Job {
// Hmm...
}
Well, this strategy is nothing more than a sort on job.length, so let's use the sort package. Define a custom type, and implement sort.Interface...
type JobSlice []Job // Should probably be called MinCompletionTimesJobSlice
func (js JobSlice) Len() {
return len(js)
}
func (js JobSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
return js[i].length < js[j].length
}
func (js JobSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
js[i], js[j] = js[j], js[i]
}
Hooray, now to back to our simple strategy...
func MinCompletionTimes(jobs []Job) []Job {
sort.Sort([]JobSlice(jobs)) // cannot convert jobs (type []Job) to type []JobSlice
return jobs
}
Er...
First of all, I don't see Jobs defined anywhere even though you use it like jobs []Jobs.
I think you mean Job since the error states cannot convert jobs (type []Job), so I'll assume that when you're doing []Jobs, you really mean []Job.
If so, then with this, y You're trying to convert a slice of Job to a slice of JobSlice, the which has an underlying type of []Job.
[]JobSlice(jobs) // converting a slice of Job to a slice of slices of Job?
In other words, you're trying to convert []Job to effectively [][]Job. Instead I think you just wanted to convert your []Job to JobSlice
JobSlice(jobs)
So taking out a bunch of the code, you can see that this conversion will work.
type Job struct {
weight int
length int
}
type JobSlice []Job
func main() {
x := []Job{{},{}}
y := JobSlice(x)
z := []Job(y)
fmt.Println(x, y, z)
}