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Right... for people who don't know, QueryInterface was the fundamental method client code would call on a COM object to get a particular interface.

The key here, is the object can implement this any way it wants.

A typical "static" object would just return itself as the requested interface for the interfaces it supported. But a proxy object, with a wrapped upstream object, could pass through requests for interfaces it didn't know or need to override to the upstream object.

I don't know Go, but a quick google makes me think type assertion is the mechanism for getting an interface from an object at runtime. So if Go allowed a type to override type assertion, I think that should enable middleware and other proxy objects to behave well.



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