cast

Overview ¶

Package cast provides safe, generic alternatives to Go's standard type assertion.

This package simplifies type assertions by providing convenient, single-expression functions that handle the `value, ok` idiom in different ways, such as returning a default value or a zero value upon failure.

Example:

var myVal any = "hello"

// Standard Go type assertion
str, ok := myVal.(string)
if !ok {
	str = "default"
}

// With cast package - cleaner and more concise
str = cast.Or(myVal, "default")