I'm trying to check the type of a struct in Go. This was the best way I could come up with. Is there a better way to do it, preferably without initializing a struct?
package main
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Test struct{
foo int
}
func main() {
t := Test{5}
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(t) == reflect.TypeOf(Test{}))
}
Type assertions:
package main
import "fmt"
type Test struct {
foo int
}
func isTest(t interface{}) bool {
switch t.(type) {
case Test:
return true
default:
return false
}
}
func main() {
t := Test{5}
fmt.Println(isTest(t))
}
You may pass a "typed" nil
pointer value to reflect.TypeOf()
, and call Type.Elem()
to get the type of the pointed value. This does not allocate or initialize a value of the type (in question), as only a nil
pointer value is used:
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(t) == reflect.TypeOf((*Test)(nil)).Elem())
Try it on the Go Playground.
P.S. This is an exact duplicate, but can't find the original.