From 569075a4f37c95b44876169d25f711f09cbaa133 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cwandrews <charlieandrews.cwa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:31:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added helper function RowData() for getting back a map of
 column name and pointer to empty type

---
 helpers.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/helpers.go b/helpers.go
index fa366080f..8a16a06f9 100644
--- a/helpers.go
+++ b/helpers.go
@@ -35,7 +35,17 @@ func goType(t *TypeInfo) reflect.Type {
 
 func dereference(i interface{}) interface{} {
 	return reflect.Indirect(reflect.ValueOf(i)).Interface()
+}
 
+func (iter *Iter) RowData() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	if iter.err != nil {
+		return nil, iter.err
+	}
+	rowData := make(map[string]interface{})
+	for _, column := range iter.Columns() {
+		rowData[column.Name] = column.TypeInfo.New()
+	}
+	return rowData, nil
 }
 
 // SliceMap is a helper function to make the API easier to use