// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package reflect_test import ( "fmt" "reflect" ) func ExampleMakeFunc() { // swap is the implementation passed to MakeFunc. // It must work in terms of reflect.Values so that it is possible // to write code without knowing beforehand what the types // will be. swap := func(in []reflect.Value) []reflect.Value { return []reflect.Value{in[1], in[0]} } // makeSwap expects fptr to be a pointer to a nil function. // It sets that pointer to a new function created with MakeFunc. // When the function is invoked, reflect turns the arguments // into Values, calls swap, and then turns swap's result slice // into the values returned by the new function. makeSwap := func(fptr interface{}) { // fptr is a pointer to a function. // Obtain the function value itself (likely nil) as a reflect.Value // so that we can query its type and then set the value. fn := reflect.ValueOf(fptr).Elem() // Make a function of the right type. v := reflect.MakeFunc(fn.Type(), swap) // Assign it to the value fn represents. fn.Set(v) } // Make and call a swap function for ints. var intSwap func(int, int) (int, int) makeSwap(&intSwap) fmt.Println(intSwap(0, 1)) // Make and call a swap function for float64s. var floatSwap func(float64, float64) (float64, float64) makeSwap(&floatSwap) fmt.Println(floatSwap(2.72, 3.14)) // Output: // 1 0 // 3.14 2.72 } func ExampleStructTag() { type S struct { F string `species:"gopher" color:"blue"` } s := S{} st := reflect.TypeOf(s) field := st.Field(0) fmt.Println(field.Tag.Get("color"), field.Tag.Get("species")) // Output: // blue gopher }