Structure name for string

Question

How to print the name of the struct type, i.e. i can include it in the print statement i.e. something like

type MyStruct struct { ... }

func main() {
    fmt.Println(MyStruct.className())
}

If possible, can it be considered slow? (i.e. reflection)

+3

Jacob 02 Sep At 4:44 am

1 answer

peterSO · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T05:25:19+0000

For example,

package main

import "fmt"

type MyStruct struct{}

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("%T\n", MyStruct{})
}

Output:

main.MyStruct

fmt

%T

print verb gives the syntactic representation of the type of the type.

The Go fmt

package uses the package reflect

for runtime reflection.