I have a package with a method:
func Route(router *mux.Router){
subrouter := router.PathPrefix(_API).Subrouter()
subrouter.Path(_FOO).HandlerFunc(foo)
subrouter.Path(_BAR).HandlerFunc(bar)
}
and I would like to remove the external dependency of mux by having a matching interface in my package that simple encompasses all the functionality used above, like so:
type Router interface{
Path(string) Path
PathPrefix(string) Path
}
type Path interface{
HandlerFunc(http.HandlerFunc)
Subrouter() Router
}
func Route(router Router){
subrouter := router.PathPrefix(_API).Subrouter()
subrouter.Path(_FOO).HandlerFunc(foo)
subrouter.Path(_BAR).HandlerFunc(bar)
}
but when I build this I get error:
*mux.Router does not implement api.Router (wrong type for Path method) have Path(string) *mux.Route want Path(string) api.Path
but I thought interfaces were implicitly used in golang so I thought that *mux.Route
did implement my Path interface.
I thought interfaces were implicitly used in golang
Values are wrapped in interfaces implicitly, but only in specific cases like when passing an implementation to a function with an interface argument:
func X(api.Path) {}
X(&mux.Route{}) // works, implicitly converted to api.Path
or when returning an implementation from a function with an interface return type:
func Y() api.Path {
return &mux.Route{} // works, implicitly converted to api.Path
}
In your question's case the compiler wants a value that has a method with the signature:
Path(string) api.Path
But you're giving it a value with a method with signature:
Path(string) *mux.Route
As you might now, Go types are invariant. Formally:
type A interface { Path(string) *mux.Route }
is not a subtype of
type B interface { Path(string) api.Path }
Therefore this won't work.