Get name of function using reflection

Question

I\'m trying to use Go\'s reflection system to retrieve the name of a function but I get an empty string when calling the Name method on its type. Is this the expected behavi

Answer 1

import runtime

func funcName() string {
    pc, _, _, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
    nameFull := runtime.FuncForPC(pc).Name()    // main.foo
    nameEnd := filepath.Ext(nameFull)           // .foo
    name := strings.TrimPrefix(nameEnd, ".")    // foo
    return name
}