engine: util: Add a workaround for printing special resources

This let's our tests compare strings of interface fields!

engine/util/util.go

@@ -291,7 +291,10 @@ func LangFieldNameToStructType(kind string) (map[string]*types.Type, error) {
 
 // ResToParamValues returns a list of field names and their corresponding values
 // if they are non-zero. This is meant for testing, and should be improved for
-// robustness or with tests if it's ever used for value extraction.
+// robustness or with tests if it's ever used for value extraction. This also
+// contains a hack to specifically print from resources that contain interface
+// fields too. Consider moving that into types.ValueOf after testing if that
+// doesn't break other code paths.
 func ResToParamValues(res engine.Res) (map[string]types.Value, error) {
 
 	ret := make(map[string]types.Value)
@@ -320,6 +323,17 @@ func ResToParamValues(res engine.Res) (map[string]types.Value, error) {
 			continue // skip zero values
 		}
 
+		// hack to support Value resource
+		// TODO: consider letting types.ValueOf turn an interface into a variant
+		typ := rval.Type()
+		kind := typ.Kind()
+		if kind == reflect.Interface && rval.CanInterface() && !rval.IsNil() {
+			s := fmt.Sprintf("%v", rval) // magic concrete value printer
+			val, _ := types.ValueOfGolang(s)
+			ret[name] = val
+			continue
+		}
+
 		val, err := types.ValueOf(rval)
 		if err != nil {
 			// This can happen for bad fields like "Base" and so on.

lang/types/value.go

@@ -232,6 +232,19 @@ func ValueOf(v reflect.Value) (Value, error) {
 			V: f,
 		}, nil
 
+	// TODO: should this return a variant value?
+	// TODO: add this into ConfigurableValueOf like ConfigurableTypeOf ?
+	//case reflect.Interface:
+	//	t, err := TypeOf(value.Type())
+	//	if err != nil {
+	//		return nil, errwrap.Wrapf(err, "can't determine type of %+v", value)
+	//	}
+	//
+	//	return &VariantValue{
+	//		T: NewType(?),
+	//		V: ?,
+	//	}, nil
+
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to represent value of %+v which has kind: %v", v, kind)
 	}