Convert type to dictionary

General Usage
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Is there a way to convert a type into a Dict?
Or is there a way to get a list of keys inside a type?

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fieldnames(type) will return a Vector{Symbol}

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I think what you are looking for would be

typedict(x) = Dict(fn=>getfield(x, fn) for fn ∈ fieldnames(x))

(in case you were not aware of getfield).

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Perfect thanks! Yes getfield doesn’t appear here: https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/types/

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For stuff like that you want to look in the standard library documentation here.

By the way, for what it’s worth, I recommend you avoid doing this if possible. In the general case you will have a Dict{Symbol,Any} so the compiler will no longer know the types of the fields. If you simply leave your struct intact, you won’t have this problem.

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Thanks for the link. I’ll just use it for pretty printing

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Came across this, and just wanted to correct it slightly to:

typedict(x::T) where {T} = Dict(fn=>getfield(x, fn) for fn ∈ fieldnames(T))
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:+1:

For a struct the syntax now requires a wrap with typeof(x):

typedict(x) = Dict(fn=>getfield(x, fn) for fn ∈ fieldnames(typeof(x)))

To preserve the order of the fields, you could use OrderedDict instead of Dict or, for small structs, LittleDict is faster and preserves order (both are from OrderedCollections) .

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