From a38f0c74e87631c05c11d4ea22cb09cf4dd8ef83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alejandro Mery <amery@jpi.io>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 16:18:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] reflective: Add Reflection{} placeholder and the New()
 factory

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@jpi.io>
---
 reflective/reflection.go | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 reflective/reflection.go

diff --git a/reflective/reflection.go b/reflective/reflection.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f70f6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reflective/reflection.go
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package reflective
+
+import "reflect"
+
+// Reflection provides Marshalling/Unmarshalling oriented view
+// of a value
+type Reflection struct {
+	v reflect.Value
+}
+
+// New creates a Reflection of the given pointer
+func New(v any) (*Reflection, error) {
+	rv := reflect.ValueOf(v)
+
+	if rv.Kind() != reflect.Pointer || rv.IsNil() {
+		err := &InvalidUnmarshalError{
+			Type: rv.Type(),
+		}
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	r := &Reflection{
+		v: rv,
+	}
+
+	return r, nil
+}