How to cast reflect.Value to its type?

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) // doesn't compile
fmt.Println((cat.(Cat)).Age) // same

Thanks!

concreteCat,_ := reflect.ValueOf(cat).Interface().(Cat)

see http://golang.org/doc/articles/laws_of_reflection.html fox example

type MyInt int
var x MyInt = 7
v := reflect.ValueOf(x)
y := v.Interface().(float64) // y will have type float64.
fmt.Println(y)

Ok, I found it

reflect.Value has a function Interface() that converts it to interface{}

This func auto-converts types as needed. It loads a config file values into a simple struct based on struct name and fields:

import (
	"fmt"
	toml "github.com/pelletier/go-toml"
	"log"
	"os"
	"reflect"
)
func LoadConfig(configFileName string, configStruct interface{}) {
	defer func() {
		if r := recover(); r != nil {
			fmt.Println("LoadConfig.Recovered: ", r)
		}
	}()
	conf, err := toml.LoadFile(configFileName)
	if err == nil {
		v := reflect.ValueOf(configStruct)
		typeOfS := v.Elem().Type()
		sectionName := getTypeName(configStruct)
		for i := 0; i < v.Elem().NumField(); i++ {
			if v.Elem().Field(i).CanInterface() {
				kName := conf.Get(sectionName + "." + typeOfS.Field(i).Name)
				kValue := reflect.ValueOf(kName)
				if (kValue.IsValid()) {
					v.Elem().Field(i).Set(kValue.Convert(typeOfS.Field(i).Type))
				}
			}
		}
	} else {
		fmt.Println("LoadConfig.Error: " + err.Error())
	}
}

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!