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Impossible interface type assertion

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports impossible interface-to-interface type assertions.

Checks for type assertions v.(T) and corresponding type-switch cases in which the static type V of v is the interface that cannot possibly implement the target interface T. This occurs when V and T contain methods with the same name but different signatures.

Example:

The Read method in v has a different signature than the Read method in io.Reader, so this assertion cannot succeed.

This inspection only reports if the language version is 1.15 or higher.