I am trying to access values from an embedded slice in a struct. How can I do so via indexing, and without calling the private embedded object explicitly (which is not even an option when accessing from outside the package), if that's possible at all?
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
type A struct {
aSlice
}
type aSlice []string
func main() {
a := A{[]string{"hello", "world"}}
fmt.Println(a.aSlice[0]) // works, but can't be accessed outside package
fmt.Println(a[0]) // doesn't work, but looking for this something like this
}
I think I found the answer in this post: golang anonymous field of type map
Only fields and methods may be "promoted" when you embed. For everything else they act as just another field.
In this case the struct would be the equivalent of:
type A struct {
aSlice aSlice
}
Which makes sense why its values are only accessible via A.aSlice
indexing.
If you declare the slice as a exported type, then you can access the embedded slice. But you still can't do indexing.
package a
type Slice []string
type A struct {
Slice
}
package main
import "a"
func main() {
_a := a.AB{[]string{"hello", "world"}}
fmt.Println(_a.Slice[0])
}