Interface has no field or method for an exported field in a struct

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I have code that has following structure:

// $GOPATH/experiments/interfaceexport/printer/printer.go
package printer

import "fmt"

type ResourcePrinter interface {
    PrintSomething()
}

type JSONPrinter struct {
    IsGeneric bool
}

func (printer *JSONPrinter) PrintSomething() {
    fmt.Println("JSON")
}

// $GOPATH/experiments/interfaceexporter/printerretriever/printerretriever.go
package printer

import "experiments/interfaceexporter/printer"

func GetPrinter() printer.ResourcePrinter {
  return &printer.JSONPrinter{IsGeneric: true}
}


// $GOPATH/experiments/interfaceexport/main.go
import "experiments/intefaceexport/printerretriever"

func main() {
  printer := printerretriever.GetPrinter()

  printer.PrintSomething() // "JSON"
  // interfaceexport/main.go:13: printer.IsGeneric undefined (type printer.ResourcePrinter has no field or method IsGeneric)
  if printer.IsGeneric {
    printer.PrintSomething()
  }
}

When I do go run main.go I get following error:

interfaceexport/main.go:13: printer.IsGeneric undefined (type printer.ResourcePrinter has no field or method IsGeneric)

Why do I get above error even though IsGeneric is exported?

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