I am writing a data structure that needs to hash an arbitrary object. The following function seems to fail if I give an int
is the parameter.
func Hash( obj interface{} ) []byte {
digest := md5.New()
if err := binary.Write(digest, binary.LittleEndian, obj); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return digest.Sum()
}
Calling this on an int
results in:
panic: binary.Write: invalid type int
What is the right way to do this?
binary.Write writes "a fixed-size value or a pointer to a fixed-size value." Type int is not a fixed size value; int is "either 32 or 64 bits." Use a fixed-size value like int32.
I found that a good way to do this is to serialize the object using the "gob" package, along the following lines:
var (
digest = md5.New()
encoder = gob.NewEncoder(digest)
)
func Hash(obj interface{}) []byte {
digest.Reset()
if err := encoder.Encode(obj); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return digest.Sum()
}
Edit: This does not work as intended (see below).