Marshal/Unmarshal string to struct (and vice-versa)

[smoyer64]

String values should marshal/unmarshal to struct when MarshalText/UnmarshalText are implemented. both the encoding/json and encoding/xml packages provide this capability so it should be a matter of letting the underlying library do the encoding/decoding.

[icholy]

Can you provide a concrete example of what that would look like? Would MarshalText return the entire value?

func (t Thing) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) {
  return []byte("<value><int>1</int></value>"), nil
}