Function typeFields

internal/encoding/json/encode.go:1144–1371

typeFields returns a list of fields that JSON should recognize for the given type. The algorithm is breadth-first search over the set of structs to include - the top struct and then any reachable anonymous structs. typeFields should be an internal detail, but widely used packages access it using li

(t reflect.Type)

//
//go:linkname typeFields
func typeFields(t reflect.Type) structFields {
	// Anonymous fields to explore at the current level and the next.
	current := []field{}
	next := []field{{typ: t}}

	// Count of queued names for current level and the next.
	var count, nextCount map[reflect.Type]int

	// Types already visited at an earlier level.
	visited := map[reflect.Type]bool{}

	// Fields found.
	var fields []field

	// Buffer to run appendHTMLEscape on field names.
	var nameEscBuf []byte

	for len(next) > 0 {
		current, next = next, current[:0]
		count, nextCount = nextCount, map[reflect.Type]int{}

		for _, f := range current {
			if visited[f.typ] {
				continue
			}
			visited[f.typ] = true

			// Scan f.typ for fields to include.
			for i := 0; i < f.typ.NumField(); i++ {
				sf := f.typ.Field(i)
				if sf.Anonymous {
					t := sf.Type
					if t.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
						t = t.Elem()
					}
					if !sf.IsExported() && t.Kind() != reflect.Struct {
						// Ignore embedded fields of unexported non-struct types.
						continue
					}
					// Do not ignore embedded fields of unexported struct types
					// since they may have exported fields.
				} else if !sf.IsExported() {
					// Ignore unexported non-embedded fields.
					continue
				}
				tag := sf.Tag.Get("json")
				if tag == "-" {
					continue
				}
				name, opts := parseTag(tag)
				if !isValidTag(name) {
					name = ""
				}
				index := make([]int, len(f.index)+1)
				copy(index, f.index)
				index[len(f.index)] = i

				ft := sf.Type