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kacerrandClaude Fable 5 86a61da36f 04-log-topn: implement TopN with bufio.Scanner and slices.SortFunc
Count paths in a map, copy into []KV, sort by count descending with
cmp.Compare, truncate to n. Scanner buffer raised to 1MB for long lines;
malformed lines (<3 fields) are skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012MpK9niZm4jcs3mAJbxMfi
2026-09-02 09:34:03 +02:00

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// Exercise 04 — Log Crunching: Top-N Endpoints
//
// ASSIGNMENT
// ----------
// Log lines look like:
//
// 2026-08-28T10:00:01Z GET /api/users 200 123ms
//
// Implement TopN(r, n) so that it:
//
// 1. Streams the input (must handle logs far larger than memory — no
// io.ReadAll).
// 2. Counts requests per endpoint (3rd whitespace-separated field).
// 3. Skips malformed lines (fewer than 3 fields) without failing.
// 4. Handles lines longer than 64KB (hint: bufio.Scanner's default limit).
// 5. Returns the n most frequent endpoints, most frequent first.
// Ties: order among equal counts is unspecified.
//
// Run the tests: go test -race ./04-log-topn/
package main
import (
"bufio"
"cmp"
"fmt"
"io"
"slices"
"strings"
)
type KV struct {
Endpoint string
Count int
}
// TopN returns the n most frequent endpoints in the log stream.
// TODO: implement me.
func TopN(r io.Reader, n int) ([]KV, error) {
// TODO:
// - bufio.Scanner with an enlarged buffer
// - map[string]int for counting
// - copy map into []KV and sort by count desc (maps can't be sorted)
// - truncate to n
m := make(map[string]int)
sc := bufio.NewScanner(r)
sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 0, 64*1024), 1024*1024)
for sc.Scan() {
//fmt.Println(sc.Text())
fields := strings.Fields(sc.Text())
//fmt.Printf("len: %v, fields: %v\n", len(fields), fields)
if len(fields) < 3 {
continue
}
m[fields[2]]++
}
// copy over map into list of KV
l := make([]KV, len(m))
i := 0
for k, v := range m {
// println(i, k, v, len(l), len(m))
l[i] = KV{k, v}
i++
}
// sort by count desc
slices.SortFunc(l, func(a, b KV) int {
return cmp.Compare(b.Count, a.Count)
})
if len(l) > n {
l = l[:n]
}
return l, nil
}
func main() {
logs := `2026-08-28T10:00:01Z GET /api/users 200 12ms
2026-08-28T10:00:02Z GET /api/orders 200 40ms
2026-08-28T10:00:03Z GET /api/users 500 3ms
garbage line
2026-08-28T10:00:04Z POST /api/users 201 88ms`
top, err := TopN(strings.NewReader(logs), 2)
fmt.Println(top, err)
}