func indirect()

in internal/encoding/json/decode.go [434:505]
48 lines of code
23 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func indirect(v reflect.Value, decodingNull bool) (Unmarshaler, encoding.TextUnmarshaler, reflect.Value) {
	// Issue #24153 indicates that it is generally not a guaranteed property
	// that you may round-trip a reflect.Value by calling Value.Addr().Elem()
	// and expect the value to still be settable for values derived from
	// unexported embedded struct fields.
	//
	// The logic below effectively does this when it first addresses the value
	// (to satisfy possible pointer methods) and continues to dereference
	// subsequent pointers as necessary.
	//
	// After the first round-trip, we set v back to the original value to
	// preserve the original RW flags contained in reflect.Value.
	v0 := v
	haveAddr := false

	// If v is a named type and is addressable,
	// start with its address, so that if the type has pointer methods,
	// we find them.
	if v.Kind() != reflect.Pointer && v.Type().Name() != "" && v.CanAddr() {
		haveAddr = true
		v = v.Addr()
	}
	for {
		// Load value from interface, but only if the result will be
		// usefully addressable.
		if v.Kind() == reflect.Interface && !v.IsNil() {
			e := v.Elem()
			if e.Kind() == reflect.Pointer && !e.IsNil() && (!decodingNull || e.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Pointer) {
				haveAddr = false
				v = e
				continue
			}
		}

		if v.Kind() != reflect.Pointer {
			break
		}

		if decodingNull && v.CanSet() {
			break
		}

		// Prevent infinite loop if v is an interface pointing to its own address:
		//     var v any
		//     v = &v
		if v.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Interface && v.Elem().Elem().Equal(v) {
			v = v.Elem()
			break
		}
		if v.IsNil() {
			v.Set(reflect.New(v.Type().Elem()))
		}
		if v.Type().NumMethod() > 0 && v.CanInterface() {
			if u, ok := v.Interface().(Unmarshaler); ok {
				return u, nil, reflect.Value{}
			}
			if !decodingNull {
				if u, ok := v.Interface().(encoding.TextUnmarshaler); ok {
					return nil, u, reflect.Value{}
				}
			}
		}

		if haveAddr {
			v = v0 // restore original value after round-trip Value.Addr().Elem()
			haveAddr = false
		} else {
			v = v.Elem()
		}
	}
	return nil, nil, v
}