cmd/vet: fix panic and handling of XML in struct field tag check
The check for duplicate struct field tags introduced in CL 16704
triggers a panic when an anonymous struct field with a duplicate name
is encountered. For such a field, the names slice of the ast.Field is
nil but accessed regardless to generate the warning message.
Additionally, the check produces false positives for XML tags in some
cases:
- When fields are encoded as XML attributes, a warning is produced when
an attribute reuses a name previously used for an element.
Example:
type Foo struct {
First int `xml:"a"`
NoDup int `xml:"a,attr"` // warning about reuse of "a"
}
- When XMLName is used to set the name of the enclosing struct element,
it is treated as a regular struct field.
Example:
type Bar struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"a"`
NoDup int `xml:"a"` // warning about reuse of "a"
}
This commit addresses all three issues. The panic is avoided by using
the type name instead of the field name for anonymous struct fields when
generating the warning message. An additional namespace for checking XML
attribute names separately from element names is introduced. Lastly,
fields named XMLName are excluded from the check for duplicate tags.
Updates #18256
Change-Id: Ida48ea8584b56bd4d12ae3ebd588a66ced2594cc
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/34070
Run-TryBot: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>