Comparison of slices

learn_go_with_tests/arrays/sum.go

@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@ func Sum(a []int) int {
 	}
 	return sum
 }
+
+// The ... in the method signature means it's  variadic function
+// meaning it takes a variable number of arguments
+
+// SumAll
+func SumAll(numbersToSum ...[]int) []int {
+	return nil
+}

learn_go_with_tests/arrays/sum_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package arrays
 
-import "testing"
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+)
 
 // go test -cover will show the test coverage for our package.
 
@@ -36,3 +40,44 @@ func TestSum(t *testing.T) {
 	// })
 
 }
+
+func TestSumAll(t *testing.T) {
+
+	got := SumAll([]int{1, 2}, []int{0, 9})
+	expected := []int{3, 9}
+
+	// can't compare slices...slices can only be compared to nil
+	// if got != expected {
+	// 	t.Errorf("got %v expected %v given", got, expected)
+	// }
+
+	// https://pkg.go.dev/reflect#DeepEqual standard lib to the rescue
+
+	// It's important to note that reflect.DeepEqual is not "type safe"
+	// - the code will compile even if you did something a bit silly.
+	// To see this in action, temporarily change the test to:
+
+	// func TestSumAll(t *testing.T) {
+
+	// 	got := SumAll([]int{1, 2}, []int{0, 9})
+	// 	want := "bob"
+
+	// 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+	// 		t.Errorf("got %v want %v", got, want)
+	// 	}
+	// }
+
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, expected) {
+		t.Errorf("Using reflect.DeepEqual got %v expected %v given", got, expected)
+	}
+
+	// From Go 1.21, slices standard package is available, which has a
+	// slices.Equal function to do a simple shallow compare on slices,
+	// where you don't need to worry about the types like the above case.
+	// Note that this function expects the elements to be comparable
+	// So, it can't be applied to slices with non-comparable elements like 2D slices.
+
+	if !slices.Equal(got, expected) {
+		t.Errorf("Using slices.Equal got %v expected %v given", got, expected)
+	}
+}