https://github.com/aleksi/pointer

Go package pointer provides helpers to get pointers to values of built-in types.
https://github.com/aleksi/pointer

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Go package pointer provides helpers to get pointers to values of built-in types.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aleksi/pointer
• Owner: AlekSi
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-06-25T12:23:26.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-01T18:36:01.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-15T23:06:26.851Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: hacktoberfest
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 22.5 KB
• Stars: 222
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 19
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# pointer

[![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/AlekSi/pointer.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/AlekSi/pointer)

Go package `pointer` provides helpers to convert between pointers and values of built-in

(and, with Go 1.18+ generics, of any) types.

```

go get github.com/AlekSi/pointer

```

API is stable. [Documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/AlekSi/pointer).

```go

package motivationalexample

import (

	"encoding/json"

	"github.com/AlekSi/pointer"

)

const (

	defaultName = "some name"

)

// Stuff contains optional fields.

type Stuff struct {

	Name    *string

	Comment *string

	Value   *int64

	Time    *time.Time

}

// SomeStuff makes some JSON-encoded stuff.

func SomeStuff() (data []byte, err error) {

	return json.Marshal(&Stuff{

		Name:    pointer.ToString(defaultName),                                   // can't say &defaultName

		Comment: pointer.ToString("not yet"),                                     // can't say &"not yet"

		Value:   pointer.ToInt64(42),                                             // can't say &42 or &int64(42)

		Time:    pointer.ToTime(time.Date(2014, 6, 25, 12, 24, 40, 0, time.UTC)), // can't say &time.Date(…)

	})

}

```