// Copyright 2010 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. // This file contains the test for canonical struct tags. package main import ( "go/ast" "reflect" "strconv" ) func init() { register("structtags", "check that struct field tags have canonical format and apply to exported fields as needed", checkCanonicalFieldTag, field) } // checkCanonicalFieldTag checks a struct field tag. func checkCanonicalFieldTag(f *File, node ast.Node) { field := node.(*ast.Field) if field.Tag == nil { return } tag, err := strconv.Unquote(field.Tag.Value) if err != nil { f.Badf(field.Pos(), "unable to read struct tag %s", field.Tag.Value) return } // Check tag for validity by appending // new key:value to end and checking that // the tag parsing code can find it. st := reflect.StructTag(tag + ` _gofix:"_magic"`) if st.Get("_gofix") != "_magic" { f.Badf(field.Pos(), "struct field tag %s not compatible with reflect.StructTag.Get", field.Tag.Value) return } // Check for use of json or xml tags with unexported fields. // Embedded struct. Nothing to do for now, but that // may change, depending on what happens with issue 7363. if len(field.Names) == 0 { return } if field.Names[0].IsExported() { return } for _, enc := range [...]string{"json", "xml"} { if st.Get(enc) != "" { f.Badf(field.Pos(), "struct field %s has %s tag but is not exported", field.Names[0].Name, enc) return } } }