Ternary Operator Needed

[ebitogu]

I strongly think that a ternary operator is needed on Go

Here is why

I have a struct

type VerificationStatus struct {
	StatusCode    int
	StatusMessage string
	StatusData    interface{}
}

I wish to send that struct based on a json marshal like below

data, err := json.Marshal(struct {
					requestId string
				}{
					requestId: string(responseData),
				})

Now to send it back this is the long code I have to write

            if err != nil {
					return VerificationStatus{
						StatusCode:    http.StatusConflict,
						StatusMessage: "Verification Failed",
					}
				} else {
					return VerificationStatus{
						StatusCode:    http.StatusOK,
						StatusMessage: "Verification Started",
						StatusData:    data,
					}
				}

If we had a ternary operator I could have just done this

return VerificationStatus{
						StatusCode:    http.StatusOK,
						StatusMessage: "Verification Started",
						StatusData:    err==nil ? data : err.Error(),
					}

Thanks for this amazing language though.

[mvdan]

This has been discussed before: #33171

If you think you have something new to add, please file a new proposal while filling the form at https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/go2-language-changes.md.

[martisch]

Now to send it back this is the long code I have to write

Note that the long code doesnt do the same then the proposed short form as StatusCode and StatusMessage are changed.

return VerificationStatus{
    StatusCode:     err==nil ? http.StatusOK : http.StatusConflict
    StatusMessage:  err==nil ? "Verification Started" : "Verification Failed"
    StatusData:     err==nil ? data : err.Error(),
}

starts to look much more complex to me to understand what err vs non err does then the version that uses one if.