<p>I'm working with an API that has a bunch of attributes it can spit out relating to the content. For example: Name of a file, size of the file, UUID of the content, etc etc. There's about 30. </p>
<p>My first instinct is to create a type for each one, so I can have packagename.Size and make it sortable, etc etc, but this fills the package with a ton of different custom types and looks like garbage. </p>
<p>What would be a better way to do this?</p>
<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>Ainar-G: <pre><p>If all those attributes are strings, just use <a href="https://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Strings" rel="nofollow"><code>sort.Strings</code></a> to sort them.</p></pre>inhies: <pre><p>In the examples given, yes, but there a plenty of ints and time.Times as well.</p>
<p>Basically I'm trying to avoid having a generic Attributes type where its just a struct with Name and Value fields, both of the string type.</p></pre>jasonrichardsmith: <pre><p>From my understand custom types don't cost anything.</p>
<p>Making custom types do make it easier to act upon that struct in a specific fashion.</p>
<p>You also have the os FileInfo and File types already built.</p>
<p>I would personally write what was the most idiomatic for other developers.</p></pre>
