From 990e87d80d9989dd2fbac4db21c8527e1f17cea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Flint <alex.flint@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 16:32:16 -0700
Subject: no need to initialize nil structs during path traversal

---
 parse_test.go | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

(limited to 'parse_test.go')

diff --git a/parse_test.go b/parse_test.go
index c2544fd..c18dc16 100644
--- a/parse_test.go
+++ b/parse_test.go
@@ -877,6 +877,26 @@ func TestEmbedded(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, true, args.Z)
 }
 
+func TestEmbeddedPtr(t *testing.T) {
+	// embedded pointer fields are not supported so this should return an error
+	var args struct {
+		*A
+	}
+	err := parse("--x=hello", &args)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestEmbeddedPtrIgnored(t *testing.T) {
+	// embedded pointer fields are not supported but here we
+	var args struct {
+		*A `arg:"-"`
+		B
+	}
+	err := parse("--y=321", &args)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 321, args.Y)
+}
+
 func TestEmptyArgs(t *testing.T) {
 	origArgs := os.Args
 
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