New dict.map() method

docs/markdown/snippets/dict_map.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+## New `map()` method on dict
+
+Dict now have a `map()` method that return a list of values from a given
+list of keys.
+
+It allows to keep objects in a dict, and to select needed objects from a list
+of keys. For example:
+
+```
+dependencies = {
+    'a': dependency('a'),
+    'b': dependency('b'),
+    'c': dependency('c'),
+    ...
+}
+
+lib_dependencies = {
+    'libA': ['a', 'b'],
+    'libB': ['b', 'c'],
+    ...
+}
+
+libA = library('A', dependencies: dependencies.map(lib_dependencies['libA']))
+libB = library('B', dependencies: dependencies.map(lib_dependencies['libB']))
+...
+
+```

docs/yaml/elementary/dict.yml

@@ -46,3 +46,20 @@ methods:
 - name: keys
   returns: list[str]
   description: Returns an array of keys in the dictionary.
+
+- name: map
+  since: 1.5.0
+  returns: list
+  description: Returns a list of dict values for the given list of keys
+
+  posargs:
+    keys:
+      type: list[str]
+      description: dict keys to select
+
+  kwargs:
+    ignore_unknown:
+      type: bool
+      description: |
+        If `true`, unknown keys are skipped.
+        If `false`, an unknown key results in an error.

mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/dict.py

@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@
 from ...interpreterbase import (
     ObjectHolder,
     IterableObject,
+    KwargInfo,
     MesonOperator,
     typed_operator,
     noKwargs,
     noPosargs,
     noArgsFlattening,
+    typed_kwargs,
     typed_pos_args,
+    FeatureNew,
 
     TYPE_var,
 
@@ -31,6 +34,7 @@ def __init__(self, obj: T.Dict[str, TYPE_var], interpreter: 'Interpreter') -> No
             'has_key': self.has_key_method,
             'keys': self.keys_method,
             'get': self.get_method,
+            'map': self.map_method,
         })
 
         self.trivial_operators.update({
@@ -81,6 +85,17 @@ def get_method(self, args: T.Tuple[str, T.Optional[TYPE_var]], kwargs: TYPE_kwar
             return args[1]
         raise InvalidArguments(f'Key {args[0]!r} is not in the dictionary.')
 
+    @FeatureNew('dict.map', '1.5.0')
+    @noArgsFlattening
+    @typed_pos_args('dict.map', list)
+    @typed_kwargs('dict.map', KwargInfo('ignore_unknown', bool, default = False))
+    def map_method(self, args: T.Tuple[T.List[str]], kwargs: T.Dict[str, bool]) -> list:
+        keys = [k for k in args[0] if k in self.held_object] if kwargs['ignore_unknown'] else args[0]
+        try:
+            return [self.held_object[k] for k in keys]
+        except KeyError as e:
+            raise InvalidArguments(f'Key {e} is not in the dictionary.') from e
+
     @typed_operator(MesonOperator.INDEX, str)
     def op_index(self, other: str) -> TYPE_var:
         if other not in self.held_object:

test cases/common/188 dict/meson.build

@@ -80,3 +80,13 @@ d = {
 assert(d['sanity'] == 1)
 assert(not is_disabler(d['meson']))
 assert(not is_disabler(d['host']))
+
+
+# Map method
+d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4, 'e': 5}
+assert(d.map(['a', 'c', 'e']) == [1, 3, 5], 'Incorrect result for dictionary map function')
+assert(d.map(['a', 'g', 'c', 'e'], ignore_unknown: true) == [1, 3, 5], 'Incorrect result for dictionary map function (ignore unknown keys)')
+
+testcase expect_error('Key \'g\' is not in the dictionary.')
+  d.map(['a', 'g', 'c'])
+endtestcase