invalid map key type {type}

[pacu]

when generating bindings for Go, the generated code fails with
invalid map key type ParticipantIdentifier

Example:

this struct is equatable yet, GoLang bindings don't generate code to make ParticipantIdentifier comparable in GoLang

note: this is not an issue on generated Swift Bindings

#[derive(uniffi::Record, Hash, Eq, PartialEq, Clone)]
pub struct ParticipantIdentifier {
    pub data: Vec<u8>,
}


#[derive(uniffi::Record)]
pub struct TrustedKeyGeneration {
    pub secret_shares: HashMap<ParticipantIdentifier, FrostSecretKeyShare>,
    pub public_key_package: FrostPublicKeyPackage,
}

This generates these two types in Go

type TrustedKeyGeneration struct {
	SecretShares     map[ParticipantIdentifier]FrostSecretKeyShare
	PublicKeyPackage FrostPublicKeyPackage
}

type ParticipantIdentifier struct {
	Data []byte
}

But there is not generated code to honor the Eq proc macro and make it possible for ParticipantIdentifier to be used as key on a map because the byte[] type is not comparable.

Edit: This might not have a simple solution. If someone is running into this problem you probably want to encode your bytes into a comparable primitive type. It's not ideal, but it works. For example, encode the data into a hex string using hex crate in Rust

[arg0d]

In Go, slices can't be used as map keys. Any ideas what to do in this case?

[pacu]

I ended up using a String but it's not ideal. Maybe the FFI code could actually create an intermediate type that it's actually comparable?

[arg0d]

I'm not super deep into Go, but from some light reading and asking ChatGPT, it does not seem possible to make arbitrary types compatible as map keys. In Go fixed-size arrays are valid map keys, but variable sized-arrays (slices) are not.

I think for your use case a fixed size array would work just as well, but unfortunately it looks like uniffi-rs upstream does not support fixed-size arrays.