stdmethods.md

Pattern: Malformed standard library method signature

Issue: -

Description

Sometimes a type may be intended to satisfy an interface but may fail to do so because of a mistake in its method signature. For example, the result of this WriteTo method should be (int64, error), not error, to satisfy io.WriterTo:

type myWriterTo struct{...}
	func (myWriterTo) WriteTo(w io.Writer) error { ... }

This check ensures that each method whose name matches one of several well-known interface methods from the standard library has the correct signature for that interface.

Further Reading

• Go Vet - stdmethods