sort metadata when building

this saves complexity when reading/selecting
- sort the metadata entries by the name tokens before writing
- add an Idx field to the metadata struct

src/bin/pokedex/pokedex.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/tmck-code/pokesay/src/bin"
@@ -98,6 +99,9 @@ func main() {
 	fmt.Println("- Found", len(cowfileFpaths), "cowfiles")
 	// Read pokemon names
 	pokemonNames := pokedex.ReadNames(args.FromMetadataFname)
+	nameTokens := pokedex.GatherMapKeys(pokemonNames)
+	sort.Strings(nameTokens)
+
 	fmt.Println("- Read", len(pokemonNames), "pokemon names from", args.FromMetadataFname)
 
 	fmt.Println("- Writing entries to file")
@@ -117,8 +121,9 @@ func main() {
 	uniqueNames := make(map[string][]int)
 	i := 0
 	pbar = bin.NewProgressBar(len(pokemonNames))
-	for key, name := range pokemonNames {
-		metadata := pokedex.CreateNameMetadata(i, key, name, args.FromDir, cowfileFpaths)
+	for i, key := range nameTokens {
+		name := pokemonNames[key]
+		metadata := pokedex.CreateNameMetadata(fmt.Sprintf("%04d", i), key, name, args.FromDir, cowfileFpaths)
 		pokedex.WriteStructToFile(metadata, pokedex.MetadataFpath(paths.MetadataDirPath, i))
 		pokemonMetadata = append(pokemonMetadata, *metadata)
 		uniqueNames[name.Slug] = append(uniqueNames[name.Slug], i)

src/pokedex/metadata.go

@@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ type PokemonEntryMapping struct {
 }
 
 type PokemonMetadata struct {
+	Idx              string
 	Name             string
 	JapaneseName     string
 	JapanesePhonetic string
 	Entries          []PokemonEntryMapping
 }
 
-func NewMetadata(name string, japaneseName string, japanesePhonetic string, entryMap map[int][][]string) *PokemonMetadata {
+func NewMetadata(idx string, name string, japaneseName string, japanesePhonetic string, entryMap map[int][][]string) *PokemonMetadata {
 
 	entries := make([]PokemonEntryMapping, 0)
 
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ func NewMetadata(name string, japaneseName string, japanesePhonetic string, entr
 	}
 
 	return &PokemonMetadata{
+		Idx:              idx,
 		Name:             name,
 		JapaneseName:     japaneseName,
 		JapanesePhonetic: japanesePhonetic,

src/pokedex/pokedex.go

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func Decompress(data []byte) []byte {
 	return resB.Bytes()
 }
 
-func CreateNameMetadata(idx int, key string, name PokemonName, rootDir string, fpaths []string) *PokemonMetadata {
+func CreateNameMetadata(idx string, key string, name PokemonName, rootDir string, fpaths []string) *PokemonMetadata {
 	entryCategories := make(map[int][][]string, 0)
 
 	for i, fpath := range fpaths {
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ func CreateNameMetadata(idx int, key string, name PokemonName, rootDir string, f
 		}
 	}
 	return NewMetadata(
+		idx,
 		name.English,
 		name.Japanese,
 		name.JapanesePhonetic,