structhash is a Go library for generating hash strings of arbitrary data structures.
Features
- fields may be ignored or renamed (like in
json.Marshal
, but using different struct tag) - fields may be versioned
- fields order in struct doesn't matter (unlike
json.Marshal
) - nil values are treated equally to zero values
Installation
Standard go get
:
$ go get github.com/cnf/structhash
Documentation
For usage and examples see the Godoc.
Quick start
package main
import (
"fmt"
"crypto/md5"
"crypto/sha1"
"github.com/cnf/structhash"
)
type S struct {
Str string
Num int
}
func main() {
s := S{"hello", 123}
hash, err := structhash.Hash(s, 1)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(hash)
// Prints: v1_41011bfa1a996db6d0b1075981f5aa8f
fmt.Println(structhash.Version(hash))
// Prints: 1
fmt.Printf("%x\n", structhash.Md5(s, 1))
// Prints: 41011bfa1a996db6d0b1075981f5aa8f
fmt.Printf("%x\n", structhash.Sha1(s, 1))
// Prints: 5ff72df7212ce8c55838fb3ec6ad0c019881a772
fmt.Printf("%x\n", md5.Sum(structhash.Dump(s, 1)))
// Prints: 41011bfa1a996db6d0b1075981f5aa8f
fmt.Printf("%x\n", sha1.Sum(structhash.Dump(s, 1)))
// Prints: 5ff72df7212ce8c55838fb3ec6ad0c019881a772
}
Struct tags
structhash supports struct tags in the following forms:
hash:"-"
, orhash:"name:{string} version:{number} lastversion:{number}"
All fields are optional and may be ommitted. Their semantics is:
-
- ignore fieldname:{string}
- rename field (may be useful when you want to rename field but keep hashes unchanged for backward compatibility)version:{number}
- ignore field if version passed to structhash is smaller than given numberlastversion:{number}
- ignore field if version passed to structhash is greater than given number
Example:
type MyStruct struct {
Ignored string `hash:"-"`
Renamed string `hash:"name:OldName version:1"`
Legacy string `hash:"version:1 lastversion:2"`
}
Nil values
When hash is calculated, nil pointers, nil slices, and nil maps are treated equally to zero values of corresponding type. E.g., nil pointer to string is equivalent to empty string, and nil slice is equivalent to empty slice.