I've got an alias type "LogLevel" which is a string:
type LogLevel string
const (
InfoLevel LogLevel = "info"
DebugLevel LogLevel = "debug"
WarnLevel LogLevel = "warn"
ErrorLevel LogLevel = "error"
PanicLevel LogLevel = "panic"
FatalLevel LogLevel = "fatal"
)
Now I'd like to do a switch case to check these consts against user input:
switch strings.ToLower(input) {
case "", InfoLevel:
return zap.NewAtomicLevelAt(zap.InfoLevel)
default:
fmt.Errorf("Invalid log level supplied '%s'. Defaulting to info loglevel", input)
return zap.NewAtomicLevelAt(zap.InfoLevel)
}
This doesn't work because apparently the types are incompatible?
invalid case InfoLevel in switch on strings.ToLower(input) (mismatched types LogLevel and string)
How can I use the defined consts in the cases?
One of the operands in an comparison must be assignable to the other. The type string
is not assignable to LogLevel
and vice versa. To get comparable values, convert the string
to a LogLevel
:
switch LogLevel(strings.ToLower(input)) {
type LogLevel string
is a type definition.
type LogLevel = string
is a type alias.
It looks like you want the latter and not the former.