I'm trying to return a instance from the gorm.Open() return it i'm getting following error
controllers/db.go:34: cannot assign *gorm.DB to dc.DB (type gorm.DB) in multiple assignment
This is the db.go controller
package controllers
import (
//"fmt"
_ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
//v "github.com/spf13/viper"
"github.com/jinzhu/gorm"
)
type DBController struct {
DB gorm.DB
}
func (dc *DBController) InitDB() {
var err error
dc.DB, err = gorm.Open("mysql","root:12345@tcp(localhost:3306)/api")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Error when connect database, the error is '%v'", err)
}
dc.DB.LogMode(true)
}
func (dc *DBController) GetDB() gorm.DB {
return dc.DB
}
What is reason for this error and how can i fix this?
You need and most probably you want to have a pointer in the structure of controller. Passing structure with a pointer to the database object (gorm.DB) will prevent Go from making a copy of this object (gorm.DB).
Do the following:
type DBController struct {
DB *gorm.DB
}
Now it should work fine.