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Could you please also add test cases where the elements are structs and resources?
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Hmm, thanks for pointing it out.
When I added the test case for struct, it doesn't work.
I get
error: member test is used before it has been initialized
. So it seems like usingGet
andSet
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By adding transfer call, I was able to get it to work for struct.
It doesn't work for resource because after the first
Set
call, we end up with two resources at theleftIndex
which returns the error// error: two parents are captured for the slab
.I'll look further into how we swap resources atomically. Another option might be to just not support reverse for resource typed arrays. Most of the array functions do that already.
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So the problem is, structs and resources behave differently when "Transferred". Structs are copied, whereas references are just 'moved'. Here what you would want to do is, instead of
v.Get
, do av.Remove
, which will "remove" the value from the array. Then instead of setting (i.e:v.Set
), do av.Insert
, because by removing earlier, we literally remove the value from the array, hence the values are shifted by one index.Now one thing to note is that, because the remaining values are shifted by one index by removing, if you try to remove the first element (leftValue) first, and then try to remove the last element (rightElement), it will mess-up the indexing for the second/right value removal. (could get an array-out-of-bound error / or could end up removing the wrong value) because after the first removal, the size of the array is (n-1).
So, you'll have to swap the removals, to first remove from the rear-end (right index) first, and then remove from the front (the left index).
i.e:
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Also no need for an additional "Transfer" because
Remove
andInsert
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This feels too expensive to me; transfers here are not necessary, Why move stuff to stack and then move again to strange with totally new storageID and slab tree?
We are 100% sure that storage address will not change in this operation. Why not add
swap
toatree.Array
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I thought so as well and asked Bastian about adding support for
reverse
in atree on #2605 (comment). Didn't ask aboutswap
but that will work nicely as well.We can also think about adding it using
Remove
andInsert
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Alternatively, as it has been briefly discussed in issue #2605, maybe we could start with the function that returns a new array with entries reversed, which should be easy to implement. And then later add this as the "optimized" version which does the same in-place. So the functionality is there, if someone needs it.
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@SupunS Makes sense, opened up #2654 for copy-based reversal.
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Good point 👍 . I opened onflow/atree#326 to add
Array.Swap
.