Merge pull request #413 from suekto-andreas/v9

Fix #352 Returns error when passing pointer to RegisterStructValidation

validator_instance.go

@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ func (v *Validate) RegisterStructValidationCtx(fn StructLevelFuncCtx, types ...i
 	}
 
 	for _, t := range types {
+		tv := reflect.ValueOf(t)
+		if tv.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
+			t = reflect.Indirect(tv).Interface()
+		}
+
 		v.structLevelFuncs[reflect.TypeOf(t)] = fn
 	}
 }

validator_test.go

@@ -8149,3 +8149,16 @@ func TestKeyOrs(t *testing.T) {
 	AssertDeepError(t, errs, "Test2.Test1[badtestkey]", "Test2.Test1[badtestkey]", "Test1[badtestkey]", "Test1[badtestkey]", "okkey", "eq=testkey|eq=testkeyok")
 	AssertDeepError(t, errs, "Test2.Test1[badtestkey]", "Test2.Test1[badtestkey]", "Test1[badtestkey]", "Test1[badtestkey]", "eq", "eq")
 }
+
+func TestStructLevelValidationsPointerPassing(t *testing.T) {
+	v1 := New()
+	v1.RegisterStructValidation(StructValidationTestStruct, &TestStruct{})
+
+	tst := &TestStruct{
+		String: "good value",
+	}
+
+	errs := v1.Struct(tst)
+	NotEqual(t, errs, nil)
+	AssertError(t, errs, "TestStruct.StringVal", "TestStruct.String", "StringVal", "String", "badvalueteststruct")
+}