Working with *string Fields

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I have a Struct like this

type Example struct {
    SomeField     *string                
}

If I pass the Example struct to the data for view.Execute then in the template I have something like

{{ if .SomeField == "some_value" }} HAS SOME VALUE {{ end }}

The expression will always be False because the type of ".SomeField" is a *string and the Right-hand side is string so they are considered incompatible.

The "solution" was to add a Global function like this

views.AddGlobalFunc("nz", func(a jet.Arguments) reflect.Value {
            // Helps convert the *string fields to just a string we can compare.
            a.RequireNumOfArguments("nz", 1, 1)

            val := a.Get(0)
            if val.IsNil() {
                return reflect.ValueOf("")
            }

            result := cast.ToString(val.Interface())

            return reflect.ValueOf(result)
        })

And use this ie

{{ if nz(.SomeField) == "somevalue") }} 

And it now works as expected because the function will make sure it's a String

I have just started working with Jet, so Apologies if I have missed something. Thanks for all your work.