Convert []interface to []string in Golang

Question

I\'m using the github.com/fatih/structs package to convert values of all fields of a struct into []interface{} with the toValues() function. See he

Answer 1

You can't simply convert []interface{} to []string even if all the values are of concrete type string, because those 2 types have different memory layout / representation. For details see Cannot convert []string to []interface {}.

You have to define how you want values of different types to be represented by string values.

The easiest and sensible way would be to iterate over the values, and use fmt.Sprint() to obtain a string representation of each, e.g.:

t := []interface{}{
    "zero",
    1, 2.0, 3.14,
    []int{4, 5},
    struct{ X, Y int }{6, 7},
}
fmt.Println(t)

s := make([]string, len(t))
for i, v := range t {
    s[i] = fmt.Sprint(v)
}
fmt.Println(s)
fmt.Printf("%q\n", s)

Output (try it on the Go Playground):

[zero 1 2 3.14 [4 5] {6 7}]
[zero 1 2 3.14 [4 5] {6 7}]
["zero" "1" "2" "3.14" "[4 5]" "{6 7}"]