Structures using custom types fail to set default values during validation.

[danjacques]

In validateField, reflect.Value's Set method is called on a type to install its default value. If the target field is a custom type, this will panic with a type mismatch in reflect.

type Trinary string

type CoolRequest struct {
  Value Trinary `endpoints:"d=ohai"`
}

Minimally, this should error instead of panic. Ideally, it would check Kind and use SetString or equivalent instead of raw Set.

[s-mang]

the current behavior (panic) is to try to ensure an issue like in your example is caught in dev or testing, and not production.

but +1 your proposed enhancement sounds good to me. if you can send a PR, I'd be grateful.