How to initiate a go struct with a nested struct whose name has package name

Question

I have a go struct defined as below:

type Record struct {
    events.APIGatewayProxyRequest          `json:",omitempty"`
    events.APIGatewayWebsocketProxyRequest `json:",omitempty"` //nolint:all
    events.SQSEvent                        `json:",omitempty"`
}

I wonder how I can initiate this struct. I tried:

Record{events.APIGatewayProxyRequest: {}}

but it gives me an error: invalid field name events.APIGatewayProxyRequest in struct literal. It seems the name including package name can't be used as key name in the struct. What is the right way to initiate it?

Burak Serdar · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-13 00:15:29Z

1

When you embed a type into a struct, the enclosing struct has a field name that is the same as the type name of the embedded type without the package selector. So:

event:=Record{
  APIGatewayProxyRequest: events.APIGatewayProxyRequest{ ... },
}

The right hand side of the initialization is a literal of that type, so you use the full type name (with the selector).

answered Feb 13, 2023 at 0:15

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