README.md

Go Struct Stringify

This package will take a struct instance and convert it into a string.

The goal is to provide a very easy way to take a struct that exists as an instance and create the code that corresponds to that struct.

type myStruct struct {
    A string
    B int
}

myStruct := &{A: "a", B: 1}

myStructString := StructStringify(myStruct)
fmt.Print(myStructString)
--
&myStruct{A: "a", B: 1}

Motivation

You're writing some integration tests for your code. You trust things to work-- these tests are more of a future proofing endeavor. Topping it off, you have to load in some complex objects from the database. Structs with sub-structs, lists of structs, custom types etc. It's going to manually create these objects to verify things are working properly.

Here's were this package comes in, just use the StructStringify() function to turn a struct instance (that you just loaded in from your database, for example) into a string. Then all you need to do is print that string, and it will be ready for you to copy and paste where ever you please.