Go中的自定义JSON映射功能

Question

So I'm making a Go service that makes a call to a restful API, I have no control over the API I'm calling.

I know that Go has a nice built in deserializer in NewDecoder->Decode, but it only works for struct fields that start with capital letters (aka public fields). Which poses a problem because the JSON I'm trying to consume looks like this:

{
    "_next": "someValue",
    "data":  [{/*a collection of objects*/}],
    "message": "success"
}

How the heck would I map "_next"?

Answer 1

Use tags to specify the field name in JSON. The JSON object you posted above can be modeled like this:

type Something struct {
    Next    string        `json:"_next"`
    Data    []interface{} `json:"data"`
    Message string        `json:"message"`
}

Testing it:

func main() {
    var sg Something
    if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(s), &sg); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("%+v", sg)
}

const s = `{
    "_next": "someValue",
    "data":  ["one", 2],
    "message": "success"
}`

Output (try it on the Go Playground):

{Next:someValue Data:[one 2] Message:success}

Also note that you may also unmarshal into maps or interface{} values, so you don't even have to create structs, but it won't be as convenient using it as the structs:

func main() {
    var m map[string]interface{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(s), &m); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("%+v", m)
}

const s = `{
    "_next": "someValue",
    "data":  ["one", 2],
    "message": "success"
}`

Output (try it on the Go Playground):

map[_next:someValue data:[one 2] message:success]