在Go中将YAML转换为JSON

Question

I have a config file in YAML format, which I am trying to output as JSON via an http API call. I am unmarshalling using gopkg.in/yaml.v2. Yaml can have non-string keys, which means that the yaml is unmarshalled as map[interface{}]interface{}, which is not supported by Go's JSON marshaller. Therefore I convert to map[string]interface{} before unmarshalling. But I still get: json: unsupported type: map[interface {}]interface" {}. I don't understand. The variable cfy is not map[interface{}]interface{}.

import (
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "encoding/json"
    "gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
)

func GetConfig(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    cfy := make(map[interface{}]interface{})
    f, err := ioutil.ReadFile("config/config.yml")
    if err != nil {
        // error handling
    }
    if err := yaml.Unmarshal(f, &cfy); err != nil {
        // error handling
    }
    //convert to a type that json.Marshall can digest
    cfj := make(map[string]interface{})
    for key, value := range cfy {
        switch key := key.(type) {
        case string:
            cfj[key] = value
        }
    }
    j, err := json.Marshal(cfj)
    if err != nil {
        // errr handling. We get: "json: unsupported type: map[interface {}]interface" {}
    }
    w.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    w.Write(j)
}

Answer 1

Your solution only converts values at the "top" level. If a value is also a map (nested map), your solution does not convert those.

Also you only "copy" the values with string keys, the rest will be left out of the result map.

Here's a function that recursively converts nested maps:

func convert(m map[interface{}]interface{}) map[string]interface{} {
    res := map[string]interface{}{}
    for k, v := range m {
        switch v2 := v.(type) {
        case map[interface{}]interface{}:
            res[fmt.Sprint(k)] = convert(v2)
        default:
            res[fmt.Sprint(k)] = v
        }
    }
    return res
}

Testing it:

m := map[interface{}]interface{}{
    1:     "one",
    "two": 2,
    "three": map[interface{}]interface{}{
        "3.1": 3.1,
    },
}
m2 := convert(m)
data, err := json.Marshal(m2)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(string(data))

Output (try it on the Go Playground):

{"1":"one","three":{"3.1":3.1},"two":2}

Some things to note:

• To covert interface{} keys, I used fmt.Sprint() which will handle all types. The switch could have a dedicated string case for keys that are already string values to avoid calling fmt.Sprint(). This is solely for performance reasons, the result will be the same.

• The above convert() function does not go into slices. So for example if the map contains a value which is a slice ([]interface{}) which may also contain maps, those will not be converted. For a full solution, see the lib below.

• There is a lib github.com/icza/dyno which has an optimized, built-in support for this (disclosure: I'm the author). Using dyno, this is how it would look like:

  var m map[interface{}]interface{} = ...
  
  m2 := dyno.ConvertMapI2MapS(m)
  

  dyno.ConvertMapI2MapS() also goes into and converts maps in []interface{} slices.

Also see possible duplicate: Convert yaml to json without struct