有没有一种方法可以从http响应中提取JSON，而无需构建结构？

Question

All of the ways I'm seeing involve building structs and unmarshalling the data into the struct. But what if I'm getting JSON responses with hundreds of fields? I don't want to have to create 100 field structs just to be able to get to the data I want. Coming from a Java background there are easy ways to simply get the http response as a string and then pass the JSON string into a JSON object that allows for easy traversal. It's very painless. Is there anything like this in Go?

Java example in pseudo code:

String json = httpResponse.getBody();
JsonObject object = new JsonObject(json); 
object.get("desiredKey");

Answer 1

Golang: fetch JSON from an HTTP response without using structs as helpers

This is a typical scenario we come across. This is achieved by json.Unmarshal.

Here is a simple json

{"textfield":"I'm a text.","num":1234,"list":[1,2,3]}

which is serialized to send across the network and unmarshaled at Golang end.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/json"
)

func main() {
    // replace this by fetching actual response body
    responseBody := `{"textfield":"I'm a text.","num":1234,"list":[1,2,3]}`
    var data map[string]interface{}
    err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(responseBody), &data)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(data["list"])
    fmt.Println(data["textfield"])
}

Hope this was helpful.