I really want a way to print the string representation of a field name in go. It has several use cases, but here is an example:
lets say I have a struct
type Test struct {
Field string `bson:"Field" json:"field"`
OtherField int `bson:"OtherField" json:"otherField"`
}
and, for example, I want to do a mongo find:
collection.Find(bson.M{"OtherField": someValue})
I don't like that I have to put the string "OtherField" in there. It seems brittle and easy to either misstype or have the struct change and then my query fails without me knowing it.
Is there any way to get the string "OtherField" without having to either declare a const or something like that? I know I can use reflection to a get a list of field names from a struct, but I'd really like to do something along the lines of
fieldName := nameOf(Test{}.OtherField)
collection.Find(bson.M{fieldName: someValue})
is there any way to do this in Go?? C# 6 has the built in nameof, but digging through reflection I can't find any way to do this in Go.