go/format: add format.Node example

Updates #16360

Change-Id: I5927cffa961cd85539a3ba9606b116c5996d1096
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/26696
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/go/format/format_test.go b/src/go/format/format_test.go
index b5817a5dd1..72b8d5aeeb 100644
--- a/src/go/format/format_test.go
+++ b/src/go/format/format_test.go
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ package format
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
 	"go/parser"
 	"go/token"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -143,3 +145,28 @@ func TestPartial(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func ExampleNode() {
+	const expr = "(6+2*3)/4"
+
+	// parser.ParseExpr parses the argument and returns the
+	// corresponding ast.Node.
+	node, err := parser.ParseExpr(expr)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	// Create a FileSet for node. Since the node does not come
+	// from a real source file, fset will be empty.
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	err = Node(&buf, fset, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println(buf.String())
+
+	// Output: (6 + 2*3) / 4
+}