How to run a method inside for loop in parallel in go?

Question

I have a for loop which iterates over a map of a string as key (keyString) and a slice of type Data (sliceValue) as values. Inside that for loop I have a function process() that takes the sliceValue and keyString and does some operation on it.

I want the process function to be executed in parallel for all slices.

The code that I am mentioning is like this:

for keyString, sliceValue := range mapWithKeyStringAndSliceValue {
     result, err := process(keyString, sliceValue)
     // some other code after this
}

As I mentioned above, the process function should be executed in parallel for all the sliceValues.

I looked at this question to get some idea but it has a bit different operation to do. I am new to channel and go routines and would appreciate any help!

Answer 1

Use sync.WaitGroup and do process inside the loop in go func.

    wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
    for keyString, sliceValue := range mapWithKeyStringAndSliceValue {
        wg.Add(1)
        // put your sliceValue type instead of interface{}
        go func(keyString string, sliceValue interface{}, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
            defer wg.Done()
            result, err := process(keyString, sliceValue)
            // some other code after this
        }(keyString, sliceValue, wg)
    }
    
    wg.Wait()