How to set a default value to a map container in argument validation?
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Anup Kanale
el 27 de Mzo. de 2023
Movida: Walter Roberson
el 4 de Abr. de 2023
I'm validating a bunch of arguments in class properties. Seems quite straightfoward to set a deatault for double, integer and string datatypes.
classdef newClass < handle
properties
someStr (1,:) string = "myStr"
someNum (1,1) double = 3.1415
end
But what is the right way to do this for a map container? Because when I add this line for a map container:
someDict containers.Map
I see the following warning:
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Steven Lord
el 30 de Mzo. de 2023
Movida: Walter Roberson
el 4 de Abr. de 2023
Because each function call is independent I'd expect you wouldn't have the same issue with a handle object in a function's arguments block that you would with a class's properties block. Indeed, this little experiment supports my expectation. If the default value for dict was only created once the second call to the function should have listed both oldMissingValue and myKey as keys of the dict variable.
listOfKeys = example1936099_arg(42, "myKey")
listOfKeys = example1936099_arg(-999, "oldMissingValue")
listOfKeys = example1936099_arg()
function listOfKeys = example1936099_arg(value, name, dict)
arguments
value (1, 1) double = pi;
name (1, :) string = "myStr";
dict containers.Map = containers.Map;
end
dict(name) = value;
listOfKeys = keys(dict);
end
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Walter Roberson
el 27 de Mzo. de 2023
test = containers.Map
isa(test, 'handle')
Therefore if you were to pass in a container.Map to the constructor and copy what was received into a property, then the container would end up being shared with any other uses of the container.
To get around this, to get a private container.Map, you need to create the container.Map in the constructor (and make the property private and do not create any methods that can allow people to get at the container.Map). Or you could somehow clone the incoming container.Map (the class does not provide a method for copying / cloning though.)
If you want the container.Map to be shared then mark the property as Constant .
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Steven Lord
el 27 de Mzo. de 2023
Consider the two classes attached to this answer. The class class1936099_A defines someDict to contain a containers.Map in the properties section of the class definition. The class class1936099_B assigns someDict a containers.Map in the constructor.
obj1 = class1936099_A;
obj2 = class1936099_A;
Neither obj1 nor obj2 have 'a' as a key in their someDict property.
[isKey(obj1.someDict, 'a'), isKey(obj2.someDict, 'a')]
Let's associate 'a' with 42 in obj1's property. What does obj2's property associate 'a' with now?
obj1.someDict('a') = 42;
obj2.someDict('a')
Let's try the same with class1936099_B.
obj3 = class1936099_B;
obj4 = class1936099_B;
[isKey(obj3.someDict, 'a'), isKey(obj4.someDict, 'a')]
obj3.someDict('a') = 42;
obj4.someDict('a')
obj1 and obj2 have handles to the same containers.Map object. obj3 and obj4 have handles to different objects.
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