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I have the following, which works:
reflectItem := reflect.ValueOf(dataStruct)
subItem := reflectItem.FieldByName(subItemKey)
switch subItem.Interface().(type) {
case string:
subItemVal := subItem.Interface().(string)
searchData = bson.D{{"data." +
strings.ToLower(subItemKey), subItemVal}}
case int64:
subItemVal := subItem.Interface().(int64)
searchData = bson.D{{"data." +
strings.ToLower(subItemKey), subItemVal}}
}
The issue is that this seems very non-parsimonious. I would very much like to simply get the type of subItem
without having a switch statement that simply asserts back its own type after finding the field by name. I'm not sure how to back this out however. Ideas?
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I don't understand your question exactly, but what you're doing can be easily shortened without affecting functionality:
reflectItem := reflect.ValueOf(dataStruct)
subItem := reflectItem.FieldByName(subItemKey)
switch subItemVal := subItem.(type) {
case string:
searchData = bson.D{{"data." +
strings.ToLower(subItemKey), subItemVal}}
case int64:
searchData = bson.D{{"data." +
strings.ToLower(subItemKey), subItemVal}}
}
But beyond that, I don't think a type assertion is necessary in your case at all. This should also work:
reflectItem := reflect.ValueOf(dataStruct)
subItem := reflectItem.FieldByName(subItemKey)
searchData = bson.D{{"data."+strings.ToLower(subItemKey), subItem.Interface())