We discussed Golang struct in our previous post, and this post talks about the nested structs in Golang.
We can also have a field in the struct that itself is a struct. These kinds of structs will be called nested structs, as one struct contains the other. The nesting can be done up to any level(s).
Let’s look at the 1-level nesting right now. We will create a Company struct containing another struct, “Employee“.
Employee struct
1 2 3 4 5 6 | type Employee struct { firstName string lastName string age int height float64} |
Company struct
1 2 3 | type Company struct { department string employee Employee |
Now, we can access the Employee struct from the Company struct using the infamous dot operator.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | package mainimport ( "fmt")type Employee struct { firstName string lastName string age int height float64}type Company struct { department string employee Employee}func main() { employee1 := Employee{"codekru", "website", 22, 167.12} // defining the employee struct company1 := Company{"CS", employee1} // defining the company struct fmt.Println("Employee Details:", company1.employee) // accessing the employee struct using the dot operator} |
Output –
Employee Details: {codekru website 22 167.12}How to access the fields of a nested struct?
We can access the individual fields of the inner struct from the outer struct by using the chaining of the dot operator. So, we can use the company1.employee.age to access the age field of the Employee from the company struct.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | package mainimport ( "fmt")type Employee struct { firstName string lastName string age int height float64}type Company struct { department string employee Employee}func main() { employee1 := Employee{"codekru", "website", 22, 167.12} // defining the employee struct company1 := Company{"CS", employee1} // defining the company struct fmt.Println("Employee age:", company1.employee.age) // accessing the employee struct using the dot operator} |
Output –
Employee age: 22Multi-level Nested Structs
Let’s take one more struct, “Address“, which will be a field of the “Employee” struct. So, here Company struct contains the Employee struct, and the Employee struct further nests the Address struct. This is what we call a Multi-level Nested Structs.
The Company struct can access the fields of the Address struct using the dot operator.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 | package mainimport ( "fmt")type Address struct { state string country string}type Employee struct { firstName string lastName string age int height float64 address Address}type Company struct { department string employee Employee}func main() { addressOfEmployee := Address{"Delhi", "India"} // defining the address struct employee1 := Employee{"codekru", "website", 22, 167.12, addressOfEmployee} // defining the employee struct company := Company{"CS", employee1} // defining the company struct fmt.Println("Employee address:", company.employee.address) // accessing the address using the dot operator fmt.Println("Employee Country:", company.employee.address.country)} |
Output –
Employee address: {Delhi India}
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