item.PublishedParsed and *time.Time about gofeed HOT 2 CLOSED

This SO question and answer, with comments, goes over why one would want to store time.Time as a pointer.

This go-nuts thread covers the same ground.

In short, I want to be able to JSON encode the Feed and Item types, and I want them to omit nil Time entries. This isn't possible without making time.Time a pointer, or writing a custom marshaller.

I do not think your issue is directly related to this.

Can you post a minimal example that exhibits the behavior above? I can probably help you sort it out.

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Sorry for the delay in my reply.

You are absolutely right.

In fact, having read the articles of your links, I understood my mistake.

The principle of the program: I read a text file, for each url, I run a goroutine. Each goroutine parses the flow and sends the result into a channel.

My error was that after retrieving item.PublishedParsed, I would convert it to a string before applying Format (). But itemPublishedParsed is of type * time.Time. I also forgot to test the presence of the date before applying Format () so the error was thrown.

Thank you for your help that allowed me to find my silly mistake.

Thank you again for your library.

I close the ticket.

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