| commit | a823945b37dd76caebe4af9b00aa801b7cac4526 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net> | Mon Feb 25 21:54:08 2019 |
| committer | Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net> | Tue Feb 26 00:32:07 2019 |
| tree | 8496e15ea486b16b3735f81004c3ee6f4471bfe3 | |
| parent | 77b690bf6c1049022bf199e25da3927a56d0a60d [diff] |
Support AllowUnexportedWithinModule
For sufficiently large codebases with many struct types defined,
it is untenable to specify a large list of all types in the repository
that AllowUnexported permits visibility for.
In Go, we observe that code with a shared owner often lives in the same
repository, and all sub-packages within a repository often share a common
package path prefix. Thus, permit expressing visibility allowances in terms
of package path prefixes instead of individual types.
While not explicitly documented, this feature allows the universal comparing
of unexported fields on all types:
cmp.Equal(x, y, cmp.AllowUnexportedWithinModule(""))
This "feature" is intentionally undocumented (but a natural side-effect of the
expressed behavior of PackagePrefix) since it considered to be bad practice.
This package is intended to be a more powerful and safer alternative to reflect.DeepEqual for comparing whether two values are semantically equal.
The primary features of cmp are:
When the default behavior of equality does not suit the needs of the test, custom equality functions can override the equality operation. For example, an equality function may report floats as equal so long as they are within some tolerance of each other.
Types that have an Equal method may use that method to determine equality. This allows package authors to determine the equality operation for the types that they define.
If no custom equality functions are used and no Equal method is defined, equality is determined by recursively comparing the primitive kinds on both values, much like reflect.DeepEqual. Unlike reflect.DeepEqual, unexported fields are not compared by default; they result in panics unless suppressed by using an Ignore option (see cmpopts.IgnoreUnexported) or explicitly compared using the AllowUnexported option.
See the GoDoc documentation for more information.
This is not an official Google product.
go get -u github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp
BSD - See LICENSE file