How can I use `get` with a subtype of a Dict key?

General Usage
1

I would like to define a Dict{A, Bool} and then put entries with keys of type B (a subtype of A) into it. Adding B entries to the Dict works, as does indexing the Dict with [], but get doesn’t seem to work:

julia> VERSION
v"1.8.2"

julia> abstract type A end; struct B <: A name end

julia> b = B("b")
B("b")

julia> d = Dict{A, Bool}(b => true)
Dict{A, Bool} with 1 entry:
  B("b") => 1

julia> d[b]
true

julia> get(d, b)
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching get(::Dict{A, Bool}, ::B)
Closest candidates are:
  get(::Dict{K, V}, ::Any, ::Any) where {K, V} at dict.jl:523
  get(::IOContext, ::Any, ::Any) at show.jl:343
  get(::WeakKeyDict{K}, ::Any, ::Any) where K at weakkeydict.jl:142
  ...

get(d, convert(A, b)) doesn’t seem to work either. Is there a way to make get work in this case?

Thanks!

2

You are missing the third argument to get

help?> get
search: get get! getpid getkey getfield getindex getproperty gethostname get_zero_subnormals SegmentationFault mergewith mergewith! RegexMatch

  get(collection, key, default)

  Return the value stored for the given key, or the given default value if no mapping for the key is present.

  │ Julia 1.7
  │
  │  For tuples and numbers, this function requires at least Julia 1.7.

  Examples
  ≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡

  julia> d = Dict("a"=>1, "b"=>2);

  julia> get(d, "a", 3)
  1

  julia> get(d, "c", 3)
  3
3

Oh, D’oh! Thanks!

I thought there was a two argument get (though obviously I’ve never used it).

I’m using get because I can’t work out how to broadcast []: d.[[b, c]] doesn’t work so I resorted to get.(Ref(d), [b, c]). get.(Ref(d), [b, c], nothing) works, I just never use the nothing.

Thanks!

4

You can use getindex instead of [].

5

Perfect! Thanks.