Perhaps https://github.com/kortschak/utter might suit your needs?
On Mon, 15 Aug 2022, at 4:07 PM, John wrote:
> Hey axel,
>
> I recognize the problem space you are discussing. There are a couple
> strategies I could implement to try and solve the problems. And I'm not 100%
> sure you can solve all of them. But I certainly don't want to jump down the
> rabbit hole of reflection myself if I don't have to. So I'm looking for a
> package that has attempted to do this. I'd certainly take something that
> can't handle every case.
>
> So far my googlefoo hasn't found the key words that differentiate this from
> pretty printing, or this type of package doesn't exist.
>
> Thanks for your response axel.
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 15, 2022 at 7:53:16 AM UTC-7 axel.wa...@googlemail.com
> wrote:
>> I don't believe this is possible, in general. For example, consider
>>
>> type S struct {
>> A *int
>> B *int
>> }
>> var x S
>> x.A = new(int)
>> x.B = x.A
>>
>> There is no single expression for the value of x. Or
>>
>> type P *P
>> x := new(P)
>> *x = x
>>
>> Then you have values which represent more than just their plain memory
>> resources. For example, an *os.File - restoring that would not give you the
>> same thing.
>>
>> There's lots of design space here and I don't think you can solve it in full
>> generality. So, at the very least, you have to be very deliberate about what
>> you want and what you are willing to give up.
>>
>> But. Maybe someone else has suggestions for a library doing an approximation
>> of this you'd like better.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:42 PM John <johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey axel,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately not. Because that is going to
>>> simply print pointer values out. I want it to unwind all of that (and
>>> handle the difficulty of recursive references). I want to be able to take
>>> what is printed and simply paste it into a file assigned to a variable, add
>>> the needed imports and have it compile.
>>> On Monday, August 15, 2022 at 7:34:08 AM UTC-7 axel.wa...@googlemail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>> Does fmt.Printf("%#v", v) do what you want?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:27 PM John <johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I know we have plenty of pretty printing out there, but i'm looking for a
>>>>> package that can print the Go representation of a Struct out to screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> So given:
>>>>>
>>>>> var x := &myStruct{
>>>>> A: "hello"
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> someLib.Print(x)
>>>>>
>>>>> I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> &myStruct{
>>>>> A: "hello"
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure someone has used reflection to do this and figured out how they
>>>>> want to deal with recursive pointers, so don't want to go recreate the
>>>>> wheel here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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