From 59a71534ae7940f25b01a02311725f13d0a1ca4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zed.shaw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:52:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Finally figured out how to get sqlx to query an object based
 on a reflect.Type.

---
 data/models.go      |  1 +
 tests/admin_test.go | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/models.go b/data/models.go
index 436227d..620f5dc 100644
--- a/data/models.go
+++ b/data/models.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ type Login struct {
 }
 
 type User struct {
+  Id int `db:"id" json:"id" validate:"isdefault"`
   Username string `db:"username" validate:"required,max=30"`
   Email string `db:"email" validate:"required,email,max=128"`
   Password string `db:"password" validate:"required,min=8,max=64"`
diff --git a/tests/admin_test.go b/tests/admin_test.go
index e2af8ba..c62676e 100644
--- a/tests/admin_test.go
+++ b/tests/admin_test.go
@@ -1,15 +1,53 @@
 package tests
 
 import (
+  "database/sql"
   "testing"
   "fmt"
   "reflect"
+  "log"
   "zedshaw.games/webapp/data"
-  // _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
-  // "github.com/jmoiron/sqlx"
+  _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
+  sq "github.com/Masterminds/squirrel"
 )
 
+func SelectTable1(table string, theType reflect.Type, err error, sql_query string, args ...interface{}) (error) {
+  db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "./db.sqlite3")
+  defer db.Close()
+
+  rows, err := db.Query(sql_query, args...)
+  if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
+  defer rows.Close()
+
+  for rows.Next() {
+    data := make([]interface{}, theType.NumField())
+    columns := make([]interface{}, theType.NumField())
+
+    for i := 0; i < len(columns); i++ {
+      columns[i] = &data[i]
+    }
+
+    rows.Scan(columns...)
+
+    fmt.Println(data)
+  }
+
+  return rows.Err()
+}
+
+func SelectTable2(theType reflect.Type, err error, sql_query string, args ...interface{}) (error) {
+
+  the_data := reflect.New(theType)
+
+  err = data.DB.Get(the_data.Interface(), sql_query, args...)
+
+  fmt.Println("select after says", the_data)
+
+  return err
+}
+
 func TestAdminIndexPage(t *testing.T) {
+
   models := data.Models()
 
   for table, model := range models {
@@ -19,5 +57,9 @@ func TestAdminIndexPage(t *testing.T) {
     for _, field := range fields {
       fmt.Println("\t", field.Name, field.Type, field.Tag)
     }
+
+    sql, args, err := sq.Select("*").From(table).ToSql()
+    err = SelectTable2(model, err, sql, args...)
+    if err != nil { fmt.Println("ERROR", err) }
   }
 }