Can I create a new function using reflection in Go?

Question

I have an idea to use interfaces in Go to define RPC style interfaces. So for a given service, I might create an interface like this:

type MyService interface{
          


        

Answer 1

You can not create a type with attached methods via reflection, as to instantiate an object of that type.

You could possibly achieve this with a lot of hackery through the unsafe package. But even then, it'd be a massive pain.

If you elaborated more on the problem you're trying to solve, the community could come up with alternatives ways of solving it.

Edit (23. July 2015): starting with Go 1.5 there's reflect.FuncOf and reflect.MakeFunc, which do exactly what you want.