golang pointer receiver error

Assuming we have an interface declaration in go as so:

type Stringer interface {
  String() string
}

We can create a custom struct to implement the interface like so:

type struct MyStruct{
  Value string
}

func (m *MyStruct) String() string {
  return m.Value
}

If we try to assign a type of MyStruct to the Stringer interface, we will receive an error of __ MyType does not implement Stringer (String method has pointer receiver)__

mytype := MyStruct{Value: "test"}

var s Stringer
s = m // throws the error above

This is because the interface is defined on pointer types of *MyType and not the types of MyType

To fix the error we just need to use the pointer type:

mytype := MyStruct{Value: "test"}

var s Stringer
s = &m // no errors