Assign pointer to variable in Golang

Question

I am working in Golang, I have a Struct that contains some fields, one of them is a time.Time field to save the Delete_Atso it can be null, basically I have defined it as:

type Contact struct {
     Delete_At *time.Time
}

So, with the pointer it can be null. Then, I have a method when this value is assigned, I have something like:

contact := Contact{}
contact.Deleted_At = time.Now()

But with it, I get:

cannot use time.Now() (type time.Time) as type *time.Time in assignment

I totally understand that is a bad assignment, but, how should I do it? how the conversion should be done?

Jonathan Hall · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-27 20:31:49Z

7

t := time.Now()
contact.Deleted_At = &t

And BTW, you should not use _ in variable names. DeletedAt would be the recommended name.

answered May 27, 2017 at 20:31

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2 Comments

Sredny M Casanova Over a year ago

uhhhh thank you @Flimzy I was also trying &time.Now() but now I see my error

kien bui Over a year ago

you must use a var to get address memory of time.Now

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