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# Docreflect
Library and command to help accessing go doc comments during runtime.
Library and tooling to help accessing go doc comments during runtime.
The docreflect library provides functions to access the Go doc based documentation of Go runtime objects, like
types, functions and methods, struct fields, or packages, during runtime, using their reflection handle to look
up the right snippet.
To be able to do that, the documentation needs to be captured during build time.
**Generating GoDoc registry code:**
Go doc comments are not accessible during runtime via reflection. To make them avaiable during runtime, we need
to capture them during build time. The docreflect command, or the docreflect/generate library package, fetches
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Library documentation: https://godocs.io/code.squareroundforest.org/arpio/docreflect
To insall the docreflect command, run:
To install the docreflect command, run:
```
make install
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Usage of the docreflect command:
```
docreflect generate \
--package-name mypackage \
coderepos.org/jdoe/mypackage coderepos.org/jdoe/otherpackage \
docreflect \
mypackage \
coderepos.org/jdoe/mypackage \
coderepos.org/jdoe/otherpackage \
> docreflect.go
```