I have a struct with a large []byte member, that I don't want shown when printed out to the console with fmt.Printf(). So I thought I'd make the member its own type and create a String() for it that returns something short, like 3488 bytes. But it doesn't work. This example:
type anint int
func (me anint) String() string {
return "I'm anint"
}
type astruct struct {
theint anint
}
func main() {
var myint = anint(1)
fmt.Printf("myint %v\n", myint)
var mystruct = astruct{myint}
fmt.Printf("mystruct %v\n", mystruct)
}
Prints out:
myint I'm anint
mystruct {1}
Where I expected:
myint I'm anint
mystruct {I'm anint}
If the toplevel object doesn't have its own String() function, a default reflection-based implementation prints out the data (handy), but it doesn't call String() on members if there is one, which I find surprising.
What am I misunderstanding, and is there any way to use fmt.Sprintf() and friends and get the output I expected?
