jecepeda / repr

Pretty-print Go data structures as valid Go code

Overview

Prints Go data structures as syntactically valid Go code. Useful for code generation. The name "repr" stands for "representation" and alludes to the Python function with the same name.

Solves a problem unaddressed by https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew; direct alternative to https://github.com/shurcooL/go-goon.

See godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/mitranim/repr.

Example

import "github.com/mitranim/repr"

type Data struct {
  Number int
  String string
  List   []int
}

repr.Println(Data{
  Number: 123,
  String: "hello world!",
  List:   []int{10, 20, 30},
})

/*
Data{
  Number: 123,
  String: "hello world!",
  List: []int{10, 20, 30},
}
*/

See the API documentation at https://godoc.org/github.com/mitranim/repr.

License

https://unlicense.org

Misc

I'm receptive to suggestions. If this package almost satisfies you but needs changes, open an issue or chat me up. Contacts: https://mitranim.com/#contacts