Iterate Over String Fields in Struct

Question

I\'m looking to iterate over the string fields of a struct so I can do some clean-up/validation (with strings.TrimSpace, strings.Trim, etc).

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Answer 1

I got beat to the punch, but since I went to the work, here's a solution:

type FormError []*string

type Listing struct {
    Title        string `max:"50"`
    Location     string `max:"100"`
    Description  string `max:"10000"`
    ExpiryDate   time.Time
    RenderedDesc template.HTML
    Contact      string `max:"255"`
}

// Iterate over our struct, fix whitespace/formatting where possible
// and return errors encountered
func (l *Listing) Validate() error {
    listingType := reflect.TypeOf(*l)
    listingValue := reflect.ValueOf(l)
    listingElem := listingValue.Elem()

    var invalid FormError = []*string{}
    // Iterate over fields
    for i := 0; i < listingElem.NumField(); i++ {
        fieldValue := listingElem.Field(i)
        // For StructFields of type string, field = strings.TrimSpace(field)
        if fieldValue.Type().Name() == "string" {
            newFieldValue := strings.TrimSpace(fieldValue.Interface().(string))
            fieldValue.SetString(newFieldValue)

            fieldType := listingType.Field(i)
            maxLengthStr := fieldType.Tag.Get("max")
            if maxLengthStr != "" {
                maxLength, err := strconv.Atoi(maxLengthStr)
                if err != nil {
                    panic("Field 'max' must be an integer")
                }
                //     check max length/convert to int/utf8.RuneCountInString
                if utf8.RuneCountInString(newFieldValue) > maxLength {
                    //     if max length exceeded, invalid = append(invalid, "errormsg")
                    invalidMessage := `"`+fieldType.Name+`" is too long (max allowed: `+maxLengthStr+`)`
                    invalid = append(invalid, &invalidMessage)
                }
            }
        }
    }

    if len(invalid) > 0 {
        return invalid
    }

    return nil
}

func (f FormError) Error() string {
    var fullError string
    for _, v := range f {
        fullError = *v + "\n"
    }
    return "Errors were encountered during form processing: " + fullError
}

I see you asked about how to do the tags. Reflection has two components: a type and a value. The tag is associated with the type, so you have to get it separately than the field: listingType := reflect.TypeOf(*l). Then you can get the indexed field and the tag from that.