Nested embedded field literals can be removed

Reports composite literals that initialize a promoted field through an embedded struct literal.

In Go 1.27 and later, you can initialize fields promoted from an embedded struct directly in the outer composite literal. This removes the nested embedded struct layer and keeps all field values in one literal.

Example:

type Coord struct {
	X, Y int
}

type Marker struct {
	Coord
	Label string
}

var Origin = Marker{
	Coord: Coord{X: 0, Y: 0},
	Label: "origin",
}

To fix the code, use the Remove embedded field type Coord quick-fix.

After the quick-fix is applied:

var Origin = Marker{
	X: 0, Y: 0,
	Label: "origin",
}

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoFixEmbedLit

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Go fix

Inspection ID: GoFixEmbedLit

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoFixEmbedLit

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2026.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2026.2, Qodana for Go 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026