// Copyright © 2016 Alan A. A. Donovan & Brian W. Kernighan. // License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ // See page 339. package sexpr import ( "bytes" "fmt" "reflect" ) //!+Marshal // Marshal encodes a Go value in S-expression form. func Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error) { var buf bytes.Buffer if err := encode(&buf, reflect.ValueOf(v)); err != nil { return nil, err } return buf.Bytes(), nil } //!-Marshal // encode writes to buf an S-expression representation of v. //!+encode func encode(buf *bytes.Buffer, v reflect.Value) error { switch v.Kind() { case reflect.Invalid: buf.WriteString("nil") case reflect.Int, reflect.Int8, reflect.Int16, reflect.Int32, reflect.Int64: fmt.Fprintf(buf, "%d", v.Int()) case reflect.Uint, reflect.Uint8, reflect.Uint16, reflect.Uint32, reflect.Uint64, reflect.Uintptr: fmt.Fprintf(buf, "%d", v.Uint()) case reflect.String: fmt.Fprintf(buf, "%q", v.String()) case reflect.Ptr: return encode(buf, v.Elem()) case reflect.Array, reflect.Slice: // (value ...) buf.WriteByte('(') for i := 0; i < v.Len(); i++ { if i > 0 { buf.WriteByte(' ') } if err := encode(buf, v.Index(i)); err != nil { return err } } buf.WriteByte(')') case reflect.Struct: // ((name value) ...) buf.WriteByte('(') for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ { if i > 0 { buf.WriteByte(' ') } fmt.Fprintf(buf, "(%s ", v.Type().Field(i).Name) if err := encode(buf, v.Field(i)); err != nil { return err } buf.WriteByte(')') } buf.WriteByte(')') case reflect.Map: // ((key value) ...) buf.WriteByte('(') for i, key := range v.MapKeys() { if i > 0 { buf.WriteByte(' ') } buf.WriteByte('(') if err := encode(buf, key); err != nil { return err } buf.WriteByte(' ') if err := encode(buf, v.MapIndex(key)); err != nil { return err } buf.WriteByte(')') } buf.WriteByte(')') default: // float, complex, bool, chan, func, interface return fmt.Errorf("unsupported type: %s", v.Type()) } return nil } //!-encode