package reflector import ( "fmt" "strconv" ) // ParseTag parses a golang struct tag into a map. func ParseTag(tag string) (map[string]string, error) { res := map[string]string{} // This code is copied/modified from: reflect/type.go: for tag != "" { // Skip leading space. i := 0 for i < len(tag) && tag[i] == ' ' { i++ } tag = tag[i:] if tag == "" { break } // Scan to colon. A space, a quote or a control character is a syntax error. // Strictly speaking, control chars include the range [0x7f, 0x9f], not just // [0x00, 0x1f], but in practice, we ignore the multi-byte control characters // as it is simpler to inspect the tag's bytes than the tag's runes. i = 0 for i < len(tag) && tag[i] > ' ' && tag[i] != ':' && tag[i] != '"' && tag[i] != 0x7f { i++ } if i == 0 || i+1 >= len(tag) || tag[i] != ':' || tag[i+1] != '"' { break } name := string(tag[:i]) tag = tag[i+1:] // Scan quoted string to find value. i = 1 for i < len(tag) && tag[i] != '"' { if tag[i] == '\\' { i++ } i++ } if i >= len(tag) { break } qvalue := string(tag[:i+1]) tag = tag[i+1:] value, err := strconv.Unquote(qvalue) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("Cannot unquote tag %s in %s: %s", name, tag, err.Error()) } res[name] = value } return res, nil }