From c135290fc39d5f9c6ac5dcaa51480f45ae3fa5f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DanB <danb@cgrates.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:21:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CastFieldIfToString with time.Duration support for acd/tcd

---
 utils/reflect.go      | 3 +++
 utils/reflect_test.go | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils/reflect.go b/utils/reflect.go
index 39e8c4aec..0ae691815 100644
--- a/utils/reflect.go
+++ b/utils/reflect.go
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ func CastFieldIfToString(fld interface{}) (string, bool) {
 		if byteVal, converted = fld.([]byte); converted {
 			strVal = string(byteVal)
 		}
+	case time.Duration:
+		strVal = fld.(time.Duration).String()
+		converted = true
 	default: // Maybe we are lucky and the value converts to string
 		strVal, converted = fld.(string)
 	}
diff --git a/utils/reflect_test.go b/utils/reflect_test.go
index bd6878d66..3e9c990b1 100644
--- a/utils/reflect_test.go
+++ b/utils/reflect_test.go
@@ -216,3 +216,11 @@ func TestStringToInterface(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("not parsing time.Duration")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestCastFieldIfToString(t *testing.T) {
+	if strVal, cast := CastFieldIfToString(time.Duration(1 * time.Second)); !cast {
+		t.Error("cannot cast time.Duration")
+	} else if strVal != "1s" {
+		t.Errorf("received: %s", strVal)
+	}
+}