Proposal: Generage Jennifer from Value

[josephlewis42]

Hi Dave,

What would you feel about adding a utility that generates code using reflect.Value? The goal is to create something similar to the %#v fmt directive.

My immediate goal is building a tool that turns YAML files into pre-populated go structs, but I could see it being used other places where you want to create a reproducible instance of something. For example, a fuzzer could create a single file with a minimal working example of a struct that fails or a rules engine could compile together a bunch of rules generated from user-defined files.

Cheers!
- Joseph

[dave]

Sounds good! I’m going to be trekking across Nepal for five months this summer, so won’t have my laptop or much internet ... but it sounds like this could be an external utility instead of a Jennifer feature?

[josephlewis42]

Sure, I'm happy to build it then give you a PR to something like jenniferutils once you're back if you're interested. I understand not wanting to modify the core, but I bet a project you owned would have more interest than something I build. :-)

Enjoy your trip!

[dave]

Sounds like a good plan... I should be back in September. Thanks!