mcabbott / mcabbott/AxisKeys.jl

Add `skip_missing` keyword to `populate!`

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Description

In some cases you may want to fill a pre-allocated KeyedArray with table data and have it ignore key values that aren't in your pre-allocated array. This might be a nice way to gracefully avoid erroring here when the key indices aren't present?

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Start in src/tables.jl around line 134 and trace how populate! handles key values that are absent from a pre-allocated KeyedArray. Define the skip_missing behavior so those keys are ignored without changing the existing erroring behavior by default; done means populate! accepts the keyword and fills matching entries without failing on missing keys.

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Tech stack
julia
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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