Had a rough time trying to set the interface value by using "reflect" package. The interface value is actually inside a struct of a struct. See my code in Go Playground
Basically, inside initProc
, I want to assign dummyAFunc
function to DummyA
field in Box
struct
package main
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Box struct {
Name string
DummyA interface{}
}
type SmartBox struct {
Box
}
func dummyAFunc(i int) {
fmt.Println("dummyAFunc() is here!")
}
func initProc(inout interface{}) {
// Using "inout interface{}", I can take any struct that contains Box struct
// And my goal is assign dummyAFunc to dummyA in Box struct
iType:=reflect.TypeOf(inout)
iValue:=reflect.ValueOf(inout)
fmt.Println("Type & value:", iType.Elem(), iValue.Elem()) // Type & value: *main.SmartBox &{{ <nil>}}
e := reflect.ValueOf(inout).Elem()
fmt.Println("Can set?", e.CanSet()). // true
fmt.Println("NumField", e.NumField()) // panic: reflect: call of reflect.Value.NumField on ptr Value ?????
fmt.Println("NumMethod", e.NumMethod()) // NumMethod = 0
}
func main() {
smartbox := new (SmartBox)
initProc(&smartbox)
}
I'm new to Go and I've read the The laws of Reflection but still can't figure it out. Please help. Thanks!
You are passing a **SmartBix
to initProc
. So when you dereference once with reflect's Elem()
you are still getting a pointer (*Smart box
).
Since new
already returns a pointer, just use:
smartbox := new (SmartBox)
// InitProc(smartbox) // **SmartBox
InitProc(smartbox) // *SmartBox
https://play.golang.org/p/j4q6aq6QL_4
EDIT
To update the input struct's DummyA
field, you can do something like this:
func initProc2(v interface{}) error {
if reflect.TypeOf(v).Kind() != reflect.Ptr {
return fmt.Errorf("value must be a pointer")
}
dv := reflect.ValueOf(v).Elem()
if dv.Kind() != reflect.Struct {
return fmt.Errorf("value must be a pointer to a struct/interface")
}
const fname = "DummyA" // lookup field name
f := dv.FieldByName(fname)
if !f.CanSet() {
return fmt.Errorf("value has no field %q or cannot be set", fname)
}
nv := reflect.ValueOf(dummyAFunc)
f.Set(nv)
return nil
}
Working example: https://play.golang.org/p/VE751GtSGEw