Find underlying anonymous field type for struct in Go

Question

I have these two structs:

type CustomTime struct {
    time.Time
}

type Events struct {
    Timestamp CustomTime
}

When I reflect the field for Events.Timestamp, I get CustomTime; how can I get the actual underlying type which is time.Time?

The type of `Timestamp` is `CustomTime`. Embedding is not inheritance. — JimB, Aug 02 '17 at 16:18

Andy McCall · Answer 1 · 2017-08-02T16:31:34.087

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Here is a go playground example showing how you can access the anonymous field.

Basically, once you have the value of the struct you should be able to get the Time value from field 0

edited Aug 02 '17 at 16:31

answered Aug 02 '17 at 16:27

Andy McCall

There's the type cast I was looking for ;) – RayfenWindspear Aug 02 '17 at 16:32
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As this is the right answer to the question I still wonder if the question is the right one... – TehSphinX Aug 02 '17 at 16:34

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