type Person struct {
name string
age int
}
The mgo package can't access unexported (lowercase) fields of your struct (i.e. no other package than the one the struct is defined in can). You need to export them (first letter must be upper case), like this:
type Person struct {
Name string
Age int
}
If you wish to have the field names in lower case in the DB you must provide a struct tag for them, like this:
type Person struct {
Name string `bson:"name"`
Age int `bson:"age"`
}
See the documentation on names:
Names are as important in Go as in any other language. They even have
semantic effect: the visibility of a name outside a package is
determined by whether its first character is upper case. [...]
EDIT:
Gustavo Niemeyer (author of the mgo
and bson
packages) noted in the comments that unlike the json
package, the bson
marshaller will lowercase all struct field names when commiting to the database, effectively making the last step in this answer superfluous.