kit

Package kit provides various reflect type functions for GoKi system (KiType = KiT = kit -- also a bit of a "kit" collection of low-level system functions), including:

• kit.TypeRegistry (types.go) for associating string names with reflect.Type values, to allow dynamic marshaling of structs, and also bidirectional string conversion of const int iota (enum) types. It is used by the GoKi ki system, hence the kit (ki types) name.

To register a new type, add:

var KiT_TypeName = kit.Types.AddType(&TypeName{}, [props|nil])

where the props is a map[string]interface{} of optional properties that can be associated with the type -- this is used in the GoGi graphical interface system for example to color objects of different types using the background-color property. KiT_TypeName variable can be conveniently used wherever a reflect.Type of that type is needed.

• kit.EnumRegistry (enums.go) that registers constant int iota (aka enum) types, and provides general conversion utilities to / from string, int64, general properties associated with enum types, and deals with bit flags

• kit.Type (type.go) struct provides JSON and XML Marshal / Unmarshal functions for saving / loading reflect.Type using registrered type names.

• convert.go: robust interface{}-based type conversion routines that are useful in more lax user-interface contexts where "common sense" conversions between strings, numbers etc are useful

• embeds.go: various functions for managing embedded struct types, e.g., determining if a given type embeds another type (directly or indirectly), and iterating over fields to flatten the otherwise nested nature of the field encoding in embedded types.