To create a struct
type in Go or Golang, you can use the keyword type
followed by the name of the struct, then the keyword struct
and finally using the {}
symbol (opening and closing curly brackets). Inside the brackets, we need to add the fields followed by the type that it needs to hold.
TL;DR
package main
import "fmt"
// Admin struct
type Admin struct {
name string
id int
}
func main() {
// create a new `Admin`
// using the `Admin` struct
// and assign it to the `john` variable
john := Admin{
name: "John Doe",
id: 1,
}
// log the contents of the `john` variable to console
fmt.Printf("%+v", john) // {name:John Doe id:1}
}
The struct
types are used to organize relational pieces of data in a single entity. If you are coming from a JavaScript ecosystem, structs are kind of the same as the objects.
For example, let's say we need to create a struct
type called Admin
with fields of name
and id
having the types of string
and int
.
To do that, we have to first use the type
keyword followed by the name of the struct Admin
then the keyword struct ending with a {}
symbol (opening and closing brackets) like this,
package main
// Admin struct
type Admin struct {
name string
id int
}
func main() {
// cool code here
}
Even though you can choose to declare struct
types inside the main()
function, my recommendation would be to declare it outside the function as it will be cleaner.
Now let's create a new Admin
from the Admin
struct type and add some values to its fields.
To do that we can simply write the type Admin
followed by the {}
symbol (opening and closing curly brackets). Inside the brackets, we can write the fields and their corresponding value separated by the :
symbol (semi-colon).
It can be done like this,
package main
// Admin struct
type Admin struct {
name string
id int
}
func main() {
// create a new `Admin`
// using the `Admin` struct
Admin{
name: "John Doe",
id: 1,
}
}
Let's also assign the newly created Admin
to a variable called john
and then log the contents of it to the console like this,
package main
import "fmt"
// Admin struct
type Admin struct {
name string
id int
}
func main() {
// create a new `Admin`
// using the `Admin` struct
// and assign it to the `john` variable
john := Admin{
name: "John Doe",
id: 1,
}
// log the contents of the `john` variable to console
fmt.Printf("%+v", john) // {name:John Doe id:1}
}
As you can see that the values of John Doe
and 1
are displayed in the console which proves that the new Admin
is created.
See the above code live in The Go Playground.
That's all 😃!
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