How to cast reflect.Value to its type?

Question

How to cast reflect.Value to its type?

type Cat struct { 
    Age int
}

cat := reflect.ValueOf(obj)
fmt.Println(cat.Type()) // Cat

fmt.Println(Cat(cat).Age) //         


        

Answer 1

Seems the only way would be to do a switch statement similar to (code below) (also, something like the commented line would've-been nice though doesn't work (:()):

func valuesFromStruct (rawV interface{}) []interface{} {
    v := reflect.ValueOf(rawV)
    out := make([]interface{}, 0)
    for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i += 1 {
        field := v.Field(i)
        fieldType := field.Type()
        // out = append(out, field.Interface().(reflect.PtrTo(fieldType)))
        switch (fieldType.Name()) {
        case "int64":
            out = append(out, field.Interface().(int64))
            break`enter code here`
        case "float64":
            out = append(out, field.Interface().(float64))
            break
        case "string":
            out = append(out, field.Interface().(string))
            break
        // And all your other types (here) ...
        default:
            out = append(out, field.Interface())
            break
        }
    }
    return out
}

Cheers!