Having used the AWS SDK, I feel your pain. They do have built-in helper methods, e.g. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/aws/#String, so at least you don't have to define your own.
Jim On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:22 PM whitehexagon via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I'm still very new to Go, so apologies if this is obvious. I'm porting > some code over to Go, and the provided SDK I'm working with seems to want > pointers everywhere. However a lot of the values are constant / literals. > > So for example storing some data in the DB: > > > https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/simpledb/#PutAttributesInput > > My first thought was along the lines: > > field1 := ReplaceableAttribute{&"colA", &true, &"new value"} > condition := UpdateCondition{&true, &"ColKey", &"Key"} > input := PutAttributesInput{[]*ReplaceableAttribute{field1}, &"TABLE1", > &condition", &"Key"} > > That was before reading a lot of historical debates about the merits of > such syntax... So assuming I dont want to create vars for every value, or > helper functions, Is there a clean way of achieving the above? > I can see that the API provides convenience setters for every struct > attribute, but you can imagine it creates a lot of code bloat for quite > simple functionality. Any thoughts? > > Peter > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
