func transformType()

in processors/dissect/dissect.go [249:275]

• 27 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func transformType(typ dataType, value string) (interface{}, error) {
	value = strings.TrimRight(value, " ")
	switch typ {
	case String:
		return value, nil
	case Long:
		return strToInt(value, 64)
	case Integer:
		i, err := strToInt(value, 32)
		return int32(i), err
	case Float:
		f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(value, 32)
		return float32(f), err
	case Double:
		d, err := strconv.ParseFloat(value, 64)
		return d, err
	case Boolean:
		return strconv.ParseBool(value)
	case IP:
		if net.ParseIP(value) != nil {
			return value, nil
		}
		return "", errors.New("value is not a valid IP address")
	default:
		return value, nil
	}
}