Set a pointer to a field using reflection

Question

i have the following struct, and need some of the fields to be nulluble so i use pointers, mainly to handle sql nulls

type Chicken struct{
    Id                         


        

Answer 1

reflect.Value.Set only accepts reflect.Value as an argument. Use reflect.ValueOf on your stringValue:

item.Elem().FieldByName("Name").Set(reflect.ValueOf(&stringValue))

Playground: http://play.golang.org/p/DNxsbCsKZA.