Option to replace a generic type parameter with a specific type about mockery

[LandonTClipp]

@DustinJSilk

It took me a minute to wrap my head around the question but I think I understand. This is basically a self-referential problem coming from the fact that .Clone() is returning the same generic type that was used when instantiating the mocks.MockClient type. This loop is generated when providing concrete types to the generic constraints:

mockRepository :=mocks.NewMockRepository[*testing.T, *mocks.MockClient[*mocks.MockClient[*mocks.MockClient[etc. forever and ever]]](t)

I forked your example and manually modified the mocks to provide a completely working example of what we would ultimately want mockery to generate: LandonTClipp/mockery-cloneable@d18f1dd

The proposal is to add new config parameters that allow mockery to replace the generic constraints with concrete types. The changes I made to the mock implementation should be what mockery would generate.

My questions for you:

1. Does my fork of your reproducer seem to actually fix your problem?
2. Would you be willing to submit a PR for this, assuming we both agree on the solution I proposed?

[DustinJSilk]

Hi @LandonTClipp ,

Thanks for taking the time to look into this!

1. Yes it does, I ended up manually editing the mocks in the same way in my project and it works as expected.
2. I'm happy to have a crack at it over the next few days when i get a moment

[LandonTClipp]

Okay great. It would be much appreciated if you could try for an implementation here. Otherwise, I can probably do it myself sometime in the next few weeks. Although, this is such a rare situation that it might get thrown behind some other high priority tasks.