I am using pagerduty go sdk to do a bunch of api requests. Particularly I am making use of
func NewClient(authToken string) *Client
to create a new Client type. I want to add some utility functions to my own work to *Client
. I tried doing this:
type BetterPdClient *pagerduty.Client
func NewClient(auth string) BetterPdClient {
return pagerduty.NewClient(auth)
}
func (b *BetterPdClient) DoSomething() {
b.GetIncident(....)
}
func main() {
pd_client := NewClient("")
fmt.Println(pd_client)
pd_client.DoSomething()
}
But I get the following error:
invalid receiver type *BetterPdClient (BetterPdClient is a pointer type)
I understand that DoSomething()
is expecting a pointer as caller. Only other way I could think of is sending the ptr as a function argument:
func NewClient(auth string) *pagerduty.Client {
return pagerduty.NewClient(auth)
}
func DoSomething(cl *pagerduty.Client) {
fmt.Println(cl)
}
func main() {
pd_client := NewClient("")
fmt.Println(pd_client)
DoSomething(pd_client)
}
Is there a better way?