import ballerina/io;

type Person record {
 string first;
 string last;
 int yearOfBirth;
};

public function main() {
    Person[] persons = [
        {first: "Melina", last: "Kodel", yearOfBirth: 1994},
        {first: "Tom", last: "Riddle", yearOfBirth: 1926}
    ];

    // A `Person` record is destructured here, as a
    // projection with `first` and `last` fields.
    // `{first: f, last: l}` is the `binding pattern`.
    var names1 = from var {first: f, last: l} in persons
                select {first: f, last: l};
                
    io:println(names1);

    // The same can be simplified as this.
    var names2 = from var {first, last} in persons
                select {first, last};
                
    io:println(names2);
}

Destructuring Records

Destructuring records is particularly useful with query expressions, but works anywhere you can have var. var is followed by a binding pattern. The semantics of binding pattern is open. {x} is short for {x: x} in both binding patterns and record constructors.

 
import ballerina/io;

type Person record {
 string first;
 string last;
 int yearOfBirth;
};

public function main() {
    Person[] persons = [
        {first: "Melina", last: "Kodel", yearOfBirth: 1994},
        {first: "Tom", last: "Riddle", yearOfBirth: 1926}
    ];

    var names1 = from var {first: f, last: l} in persons
                select {first: f, last: l};
                
    io:println(names1);

A Person record is destructured here, as a projection with first and last fields. {first: f, last: l} is the binding pattern.

 
    var names2 = from var {first, last} in persons
                select {first, last};
                
    io:println(names2);
}

The same can be simplified as this.

 
bal run destructuring_records.bal
[{"first":"Melina","last":"Kodel"},{"first":"Tom","last":"Riddle"}]
[{"first":"Melina","last":"Kodel"},{"first":"Tom","last":"Riddle"}]