How to ensure required fields in struct consistently?

• validator

  68 15,562 7.4 Go

  :100:Go Struct and Field validation, including Cross Field, Cross Struct, Map, Slice and Array diving

  

Use https://github.com/go-playground/validator, which would just simply require you to add a tag to your struct for those fields.

• semgrep

  74 9,724 9.9 OCaml

  Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

  

FWIW you can probably write a semgrep rule or something, to find all struct literals which don't mention a specific field.

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• mapstructure

  16 7,665 0.6 Go

  Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

I'm doing it by validating a map[string]any first then putting it into a structure using mapstructure. It covers most use-cases and offers the most flexibility, at the expense of a bit of performance.

• go-exhaustruct

  5 98 7.3 Go

  golang analyzer that finds structures with uninitialized fields

  

Have you consider adding a linter as part of you build process to detect those un-initialized fields? Like go-exhaustruct, (it's already included in golangci-lint if you use that already)

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