Add support for validating against uuid values that are structs which implement the Stringer interface.

[JoshGlazebrook]

Fixes Or Enhances

This adds the ability to validate UUIDs that have an underlying struct value but also implement the Stringer interface. This should cover most UUID implementations (google's uuid, etc).

Implements: #900, specifically https://github.com/go-playground/validator/issues/900#issuecomment-1046030775.

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coverage: 73.857% (+0.008%) from 73.849% when pulling fc0946708ca8e18acb87b4ad78d2ac8518395e40 on JoshGlazebrook:uuid-stringer into 94a637ab9fbbb0bc0fe8a278f0352d0b14e2c365 on go-playground:master.

[deankarn]

@JoshGlazebrook this PR is close :)

But I think it will fail for alias types that an implement fmt.Stringer. The type needs to be checked to see if the kind is already a string before attempting the cast. eg.

type uuidAlias string

func (u uuidAlias) String() string {
    return "This is a UUID " + string(u)
}

I think the new helper can be changed like so to avoid this and maintain 100% backward compatibility:

func fieldMatchesRegexByStringerValOrString(regex *regexp.Regexp, fl FieldLevel) bool {
    switch fl.Field().Kind() {
    case reflect.String:
        return regex.MatchString(fl.Field().String())
    default:
        if stringer, ok := fl.Field().Interface().(fmt.Stringer); ok {
            return regex.MatchString(stringer.String())
        } else {
            return regex.MatchString(fl.Field().String())
        }
    }
}

[deankarn]

I will merge and then make these changes.

[JoshGlazebrook]

Thank you!