Initialize nested struct definition

Question

How do you initialize the following struct?

type Sender struct {
    BankCode string
    Name     string
    Contact  struct {
        Name    string
                


        

Answer 1

Your Contact is a field with anonymous struct type. As such, you have to repeat the type definition:

s := &Sender{
    BankCode: "BC",
    Name:     "NAME",
    Contact: struct {
        Name  string
        Phone string
    }{
        Name:  "NAME",
        Phone: "PHONE",
    },
}

But in most cases it's better to define a separate type as rob74 proposed.