Unmarshal should report a type mismatch as an error (#196)

Fixes #186
2017-10-21 15:29:03 -07:00
parent 19ece5dc77
commit 878c11e70e
2 changed files with 30 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"reflect"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -508,6 +509,14 @@ func TestPointerUnmarshal(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestUnmarshalTypeMismatch(t *testing.T) {
+	result := pointerMarshalTestStruct{}
+	err := Unmarshal([]byte("List = 123"), &result)
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "(1, 1): Can't convert 123(int64) to []string(slice)") {
+		t.Errorf("Type mismatch must be reported: got %v", err.Error())
+	}
+}
+
 type nestedMarshalTestStruct struct {
 	String [][]string
 	//Struct [][]basicMarshalTestSubStruct