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text/template: cannot traverse into unexported embedded fields to get exported fields anymore #13885

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rsc opened this issue Jan 8, 2016 · 2 comments
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rsc commented Jan 8, 2016

After the reflect shuffling, text/template rejects .foo.Bar where foo is an unexported embedded field holding Bar. It probably should allow it (since reflect does too) but still reject plain .foo.

This is simplified from a real test failure.

$ cat x.go
package main

import (
    "html/template"
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    type foo struct {
        Bar int
    }
    type X struct {
        foo
    }
    t := template.Must(template.New("").Parse("{{.foo.Bar}}\n"))
    err := t.Execute(os.Stdout, new(X))
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}
$ go1.5 run x.go
0
$ go run x.go
2016/01/08 15:55:14 template: :1:6: executing "" at <.foo.Bar>: foo is an unexported field of struct type *main.X
exit status 1
$ 
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rsc commented Jan 8, 2016

On the other hand, {{.Bar}} works in both releases so maybe people should have to say that instead. Thinking. Will try to find the test failure again. I've misplaced it.

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rsc commented Jan 13, 2016

Given that {{.Bar}} works, closing unless someone has a compelling example.

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