How to control the way a type is printed out

[notevenhere]

I have some types defined within their respective packages deep inside my project folder structure.

I create nested instances of these classes and print out their types in turn.

These can be seen in the following playground code:

https://go.dev/play/p/Juh7-IndBli

Running the code, one gets

*beta.Beta[*play.ground/structs/alpha.Alpha[float64],*play.ground/structs/alpha.Alpha[string]] 

*alpha.Alpha[*play.ground/structs/beta.Beta[*play.ground/structs/alpha.Alpha[float64],*play.ground/structs/alpha.Alpha[string]]]

If one inspects these types, they will realize that although the outer type is presented without writing out its full path, the inner types are fully qualified type paths.

The problem I am facing is that when I try to write tests of examples that involve some related nested type, I need to type in the full path of the type otherwise if I refactor the project's folder structure, the tests will fail simply because the fully qualified paths to the types has changed but nothing is actually wrong with the code.

So, my question is, how to get eg

*beta.Beta[*alpha.Alpha[float64], *alpha.Alpha[string]]

and

*alpha.Alpha[*beta.Beta[*alpha.Alpha[float64],*alpha.Alpha[string]]]

instead of what I actually get?

My first guess was to use regex's but it feels unnecessarily verbose. Hoping there's something else I'm missing.

Thanks

[Def Ceb]

Is there any particular reason to compare with %T fmt.Sprintf(?) values
in the first place? If not, then you could just use type assertions. And
the reflect package if really needed.

notevenhere:

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