Cheers @Axel for the input. I think I worked it out though.
The bad thing is that it involves reflection but considering that it
greatly simplifies the code base I would argue that it is good enough for
now.
First, regarding your 2nd point of passing buf as a parameter to Decode()
instead of through a field. The examples I gave are made up to resemble the
actual situation to simplify it but what actually happens is that each
message has a "BaseMessage" struct. When receiving some payload the common
parts of the message (such as the length, type and checksums) are always
decoded into base message, then depending on the type the specific message
type is created and the rest of the bytes are decoded according to what
that message expects.
Anyway... this is the solution I came up with (for internet searching
completeness sake):
func DecodeMessage[T Decoder](bm *BaseMessage) (T, bool) {
var mT T
m := reflect.New(reflect.TypeOf(mT).Elem()).Interface().(T)
d := Decoder(m)
ok := d.Decode( bm )
return d.(T), ok
}
This function is then called with the following code example:
transactionMsg, ok := DecodeMessage [*TransactionMessage](baseMsg)
Cheers
On Friday 29 December 2023 at 23:17:47 UTC+1 Axel Wagner wrote:
1. Note that you can just write `NewMessage(&MessageA{}, buf)` in your
example, as the type can be inferred.
2. You can use a constraint on a pointer-receiver to somewhat simplify
that: https://go.dev/play/p/pEu02Bn9t3f
That is not *quite* what you are asking for. It is not actually possible to
really do what you want, because there is no way to express a constraint
that "the type needs to have a `Buf []byte` field, which would be needed to
make your `m := &MessageAStruct{Buf: b}` work. But there isn't really a
reason to pass the buffer as a field anyways, in my opinion - passing it as
a parameter to `Decode` seems far more logical.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 8:52 PM Mazen Harake <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Assume I have a tcp server with incoming tcp packets which can be decoded
in differently depending on some headers in that packet.
Each message that comes in has a struct associated with it which can be
created with the traditionale NewX..(buf []byte ...). After creating the
object (or inside the constructor, doesn't matter) the Decode() function is
called to interpret the bytes and assign all the fields of the struct.
This works fine. But is it possible to eliminate all the 200+ functions
that do the same thing but use a generic function instead?
So instead of this:
func NewMessageA(buf []byte) *MessageAStruct {
m := &MessageAStruct{
Buf: buf,
}
m.Decode()
return m
}
msg := NewMessageA(buf)
I would rather do something like this:
msg := NewMessage[A](buf)
and I would've wanted to do something like this in the generic function
func NewMessage[T](buf []byte) *T {
// ... something?
// call Decode()
// return *T
}
I can do it by creating an interface called Decodable and then passing the
the type and the "empty" object to the generic function but it feels clumsy
and weird somehow and I probably wouldn't gain very much. E.g.
func NewMessage[T Decodable](t T, buf []byte) T {
t.Decode(buf)
return t
}
and I would call it like this
msg := NewMessage[*MessageA](&MessageA{}, buf)
The most likely answer is "You shouldn't do it like that", which would be a
completely fine and acceptable answer, but *can* you achieve this?
Cheers
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