binary - How do I dump the struct into the byte array without reflection?

Question

I already found encoding/binary package to deal with it, but it depended on reflect package so it didn't work with uncapitalized(that is, unexported) struct fields. However I spent a week to find that problem out, I still have a question: if struct fields should not be exported, how do I dump them easily into binary data?

EDIT: Here's the example. If you capitalize the name of fields of Data struct, that works properly. But Data struct was intended to be an abstract type, so I don't want to export these fields.

package main
import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/binary"
    "bytes"
)

type Data struct {
    id int32
    name [16]byte
}


func main() {
    d := Data{Id: 1}
    copy(d.Name[:], []byte("tree"))
    buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
    binary.Write(buffer, binary.LittleEndian, d)
    // d was written properly
    fmt.Println(buffer.Bytes())
    // try to read...
    buffer = bytes.NewBuffer(buffer.Bytes())
    var e = new(Data)
    err := binary.Read(buffer, binary.LittleEndian, e)
    fmt.Println(e, err)
}

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