reflect: add Value.Bytes, Value.SetBytes methods
This allows code that wants to handle
[]byte separately to get at the actual slice
instead of just at individual bytes.
It seems to come up often enough.
R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4942051
diff --git a/src/pkg/reflect/all_test.go b/src/pkg/reflect/all_test.go
index d63e986..610ba4b 100644
--- a/src/pkg/reflect/all_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/reflect/all_test.go
@@ -1562,3 +1562,28 @@
}
}
}
+
+func TestBytes(t *testing.T) {
+ type B []byte
+ x := B{1, 2, 3, 4}
+ y := ValueOf(x).Bytes()
+ if !bytes.Equal(x, y) {
+ t.Fatalf("ValueOf(%v).Bytes() = %v", x, y)
+ }
+ if &x[0] != &y[0] {
+ t.Errorf("ValueOf(%p).Bytes() = %p", &x[0], &y[0])
+ }
+}
+
+func TestSetBytes(t *testing.T) {
+ type B []byte
+ var x B
+ y := []byte{1, 2, 3, 4}
+ ValueOf(&x).Elem().SetBytes(y)
+ if !bytes.Equal(x, y) {
+ t.Fatalf("ValueOf(%v).Bytes() = %v", x, y)
+ }
+ if &x[0] != &y[0] {
+ t.Errorf("ValueOf(%p).Bytes() = %p", &x[0], &y[0])
+ }
+}
