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Setting fields via reflect.Value.Index.Set works on slices but panics on arrays #39094

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dany74q opened this issue May 15, 2020 · 2 comments
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Setting fields via reflect.Value.Index.Set works on slices but panics on arrays #39094

dany74q opened this issue May 15, 2020 · 2 comments
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dany74q commented May 15, 2020

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.14.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output
$ go env
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/dany74q/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/dany74q/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/dany74q/go"
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/vz/n93rj9qs3mlb902f5z9b99ph0000gn/T/go-build920636391=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

I was trying to set an array's element via reflection:

func main() {
	valuesArr := [1]int{1}
	valuesSlice := []int{1}

	// Works
	valuesArr[0] = 2
	valuesSlice[0] = 2

	newVal := reflect.ValueOf(3)

	// Works
	reflect.ValueOf(valuesSlice).Index(0).Set(newVal)

	// Panics
	reflect.ValueOf(valuesArr).Index(0).Set(newVal)
}

panic: reflect: reflect.flag.mustBeAssignable using unaddressable value

goroutine 1 [running]:
reflect.flag.mustBeAssignableSlow(0x16)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec/src/reflect/value.go:247 +0x19d
reflect.flag.mustBeAssignable(0x16)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec/src/reflect/value.go:234 +0x4c
reflect.Value.Set(0x1a9dce0, 0xc0003a4158, 0x16, 0x1a9dce0, 0xc0003a4158, 0x16)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2_1/libexec/src/reflect/value.go:1526 +0x32
main.main()
        /Users/dany74q/go/src/github.com/beyondnetworks/beyond/cloudplatform-dal/cmd/main.go:42 +0x321
Exiting.

https://play.golang.org/p/SYRoed00w6C

What did you expect to see?

I expected to see a consistent behavior when operating on arrays and slices - that is, either both producing a panic, or both working.

What did you see instead?

Setting the element value works on slices, but fails on arrays (of unaddressable types).
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Go's pass by value semantics mean your array is copied when passed to reflect.
You instead want to pass a pointer to the array and dereference that to be able to set values.

reflect.ValueOf(&valuesArr).Elem().Index(0).Set(newVal)

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dany74q commented May 15, 2020

A-ha !

Makes sense, thank you @seankhliao.

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