Reflect Util

reflect functionality and sugar we often use in our projects. Who knows maybe you will find it useful as well.

Features:

• Ability to compare (underlying) values
• Searching for specific values in map, slice, array or structs
• Various check functions
• Easier work with pointers
• Sugar to not repeat functionality done with reflect
• Iterator implementation

Package follows same principles of handling errors as reflect itself. Instead of returning errors when something goes wrong it panics. But only when supplied arguments are invalid. You also have ability to use Can* methods like CanIndex and others to prevent panicking.

Install

Installation is available with go get command

go get -u  https://github.com/huttarichard/refutil

GoDoc

Complete documentation can be found http://godoc.org/github.com/huttarichard/refutil

Few examples from refutil package

Equal(source, compare interface{})

this method is intended to compare 2 interfaces if they are same or not. First implementation stolen from Testify Assert. Difference between refutil.DeepEqual and refutil.Equal is that refutil.Equal dont care about underlying type as long as types are convertible.

refutil.Equal(uint(1), 1) // true

of course this is possible with any type, not just numeric ones.

IsZero(a interface{})

Will check if underlying value is Zero. For any kind of type. Check zero_test.go to see all cases.

var header []string
refutil.IsZero(uint(2)) // false
refutil.IsZero(uint(0)) // true
refutil.IsZero(nil) // true
refutil.IsZero((*time.Time)(nil)) // true
refutil.IsZero(header) // true
refutil.IsZero([]string{}) // true
refutil.IsZero([]string{"1"}) // false
// and os on

IsNil(a interface {})

returns if object is nil or not. Look at example why you want to use it.

// Your custom error
type MyOwnError struct {}
func(err *MyOwnError) Error() string {return ""}

// Create new error of error interface
err := errors.New("ok")
err = (*MyOwnError)(nil)
// note err is still error interface
err == nil // false
refutil.IsNil(err) // true

Indirect(a interface {})

Will get value of interface{} if interface{} is pointer to something.

type K struct{}
k := K{}
refutil.Indirect(&k) == refutil.Indirect(k) // true
refutil.Indirect(nil) == refutil.Indirect((*K)(nil)) // true

Index(source, element interface{})

Index will return index of element in array or slice. It uses Equal / DeepEqual. Returns index if not found return -1.

Similar methods IndexSame

refutil.Index([]uint{1,2,3}, 2) // 1
refutil.IndexSame([]uint{1,2,3}, 2) // -1
refutil.IndexSame([]uint{1,2,3}, uint(2)) // 1
refutil.Index(struct{}{}, 2) // panics!

Contains(a, b interface{})

Similar to Index except it return boolean and can work with map, array, slice or struct.

Similar methods ContainsValue, ContainsSameValue, ContainsKey, ContainsSameKey

refutil.Contains([]uint{1,2,3}, 2) // true
refutil.ContainsSame([]uint{1,2,3}, uint(2)) // true
refutil.Contains(map[string]string{"test": "yes!"}, "yes!") // true
refutil.Contains(struct{}{}, 2) // false

Iteration

You have ability to implement your own iteration

data := NewData([]uint{1,2,3,4})
data.Iterate(func (iterator *Iterator) {
    // return key value pair to of current iteration
    // key is key of map, struct or in case of slice its index
    // value is value for specific key
    kv := iterator.Current()
    // kv.Key.String() == "0"
    // kv.Value.String() == "1"
    // ...
    // stops iteration
    iterator.Stop()
    iterator.HasNext()
    iterator.CanNext()
    // other methods available
})

Package unsafe

Package unsafe provide simple functionality to bypass runtime check for private fields. It will get raw pointer so you can access anything you want. Very useful for debugging. But with this great power comes great responsibility. It is called unsafe for purpose.

Originally invented in go-spew.

unsafe.ReflectValue

type K struct {
    a int
}
v := unsafe.ReflectValue(reflect.ValueOf(&K))
// v is now reflect unsafe value

Credit

• Richard Hutta
• Mat Ryer
• Tyler Bunnell
• Fatih Arslan

Thank you guys for your great work.