// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16: //go:build go1.19 // Package options provides a way to pass unstructured sets of options to a // component expecting a strongly-typed configuration structure. package options import ( "fmt" "reflect" ) // NoSuchFieldError is the error returned when the generic parameters hold a // value for a field absent from the destination structure. type NoSuchFieldError struct { Field string Type string } func (e NoSuchFieldError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("no field %q in type %q", e.Field, e.Type) } // CannotSetFieldError is the error returned when the generic parameters hold a // value for a field that cannot be set in the destination structure. type CannotSetFieldError struct { Field string Type string } func (e CannotSetFieldError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("cannot set field %q of type %q", e.Field, e.Type) } // TypeMismatchError is the error returned when the type of the generic value // for a field mismatches the type of the destination structure. type TypeMismatchError struct { Field string ExpectType string ActualType string } func (e TypeMismatchError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("type mismatch, field %s require type %v, actual type %v", e.Field, e.ExpectType, e.ActualType) } // Generic is a basic type to store arbitrary settings. type Generic map[string]any // GenerateFromModel takes the generic options, and tries to build a new // instance of the model's type by matching keys from the generic options to // fields in the model. // // The return value is of the same type than the model (including a potential // pointer qualifier). func GenerateFromModel(options Generic, model interface{}) (interface{}, error) { modType := reflect.TypeOf(model) // If the model is of pointer type, we need to dereference for New. resType := reflect.TypeOf(model) if modType.Kind() == reflect.Ptr { resType = resType.Elem() } // Populate the result structure with the generic layout content. res := reflect.New(resType) for name, value := range options { field := res.Elem().FieldByName(name) if !field.IsValid() { return nil, NoSuchFieldError{name, resType.String()} } if !field.CanSet() { return nil, CannotSetFieldError{name, resType.String()} } if reflect.TypeOf(value) != field.Type() { return nil, TypeMismatchError{name, field.Type().String(), reflect.TypeOf(value).String()} } field.Set(reflect.ValueOf(value)) } // If the model is not of pointer type, return content of the result. if modType.Kind() == reflect.Ptr { return res.Interface(), nil } return res.Elem().Interface(), nil }