Similar to this question but not quite identical.
I'm doing some code-generation, making .go files from within Go. I've got a struct, and I want to generate the text representation of it so that I can insert it as a literal into the generated code.
So, if I had myVal := SomeStruct{foo : 1, bar : 2}, I want to get the string "SomeStruct{foo : 1, bar : 2}".
Is this possible in Go?
From the fmt package:
%#v a Go-syntax representation of the value
This is as close as you can come with built-in formatting, after removing the package identifier (main. in this example) from the output.
type T struct {
A string
B []byte
}
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", &T{A: "hello", B: []byte("world")})
// out
// &main.T{A:"hello", B:[]uint8{0x77, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6c, 0x64}}
type Foo string and {field : Foo("Bar")}, it just prints this to {field : "Bar"}. Any workarounds for this?
field in the struct?FooFoo type.%p with a type, and values assigned to an interface will only show the underlying type. If you want more detailed output, you need to format it manually.