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For thesamber/do project, I needed to convert a Go type into a string. I used to convert it withfmt.Sprintf("%T", t) ->mypkg.MyStruct, but it does not insert package path into type representation, leading to collision when types from different pacakges match.

This package export type using the following representation:

*[]**<-chan   github.com/samber/example    .Example||^||Typename|^|Thepackagepath (includingpackagename)^Typeindicators (map,slice,pointer,channel...)

This library supports:

• primitive types
• pointers
• structs
• functions with input and output
• vaargs
• interfaces
• maps
• arrays
• slices
• channels
• generics
• anonymous types
• named types

Known limitations:

• structs in anonymous types
• structs in generic type
• any("foobar") is currently reported asany instead ofstring (see#2)

Using the following types:

package exampletypetestStructstruct{}typetestGeneric[Tany]struct{tT }typetestNamedTypetestStruct

See more exampleshere

go get github.com/samber/go-type-to-string

This library is v1 and follows SemVer strictly. No breaking changes will be made to exported APIs before v2.0.0.

GoDoc:https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/samber/go-type-to-string

package exampleimport converter"github.com/samber/go-type-to-string"typeExamplestruct{foostringbarint}funcmain() {name1:=converter.GetType[*Example]()// "*github.com/samber/example.Example"name2:=converter.GetValueType(Example{})// "github.com/samber/example.Example"}

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