unknown field in struct literal
GoGo Problem Overview
I'm trying to create a struct, and it is giving me an error, telling me the field is unknown.
The struct I am trying to initialize is:
package yelk
type PhoneOptions struct {
phone string
cc string
lang string
}
And I'm trying to initialize a PhoneOptions
struct in cli.go
like this:
number := os.Args[1]
phoneOptions := yelk.PhoneOptions{phone: number}
I do go run cli.go 5555555555
but it gives me an error
./cli.go:29: unknown yelk.PhoneOptions field 'phone' in struct literal
All The StackOverflow posts I've seen with this error seem to be from nested structs. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. cli.go
will give this error if I just try to run go build
on it, so I don't think it's the inputs I've been running it with.
Any idea why this happens?
Go Solutions
Solution 1 - Go
Fields that start with lower case characters are package internal and not exposed, If you want to reference the field from another package it needs to start with an upper case character, eg.
package yelk
type PhoneOptions struct {
Phone string
Cc string
Lang string
}
and then
number := os.Args[1]
phoneOptions := yelk.PhoneOptions{Phone: number}