如何将一个字符串编码的浮点数解组为一个浮点数数组？

Question

I'm trying to unmarshal some json data I get from a web service. I have simplified the problem which is shown in the code below. My question is can I make version (c) in the code work..

I know it works for single number values as shown for "timestamp" by adding the option ",string" to the json annotation. But I can't figure out how or if this works for arrays of string encoded numbers too. (See "conversions" in the example json listed in the code)

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"    
)

//version (a)
type JsonData1 struct {
    TimeStamp   uint64          `json:"timestamp,string"`
    Conversions [][2]string     `json:"conversions"`
}

//version (b)
type JsonData2 struct {
    TimeStamp   uint64              `json:"timestamp,string"`
    Conversions [][2]json.Number    `json:"conversions"` 
}

//version (c)
type JsonData3 struct {
    TimeStamp   uint64          `json:"timestamp,string"`
    Conversions [][2]float32    `json:"conversions"` 
}

const incomingJson string = `{"timestamp": "1407178369", "conversions": [["1.021", "2.124"], ["2.432", "3.923"], ["3.234", "5.001"]]}`

func main() {
    var data1 JsonData1
    if err1 := json.Unmarshal([]byte(incomingJson), &data1); err1 != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error unmarshaling with struct JsonData1")
        fmt.Println("--> ", err1.Error())
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Success unmarshaling with struct JsonData1")
        fmt.Println("--> ", data1)
    }

    var data2 JsonData2
    if err2 := json.Unmarshal([]byte(incomingJson), &data2); err2 != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error unmarshaling with struct JsonData2")
        fmt.Println("--> ", err2.Error())
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Success unmarshaling with struct JsonData2")
        fmt.Println("--> ", data2)
    }    

    var data3 JsonData3
    if err3 := json.Unmarshal([]byte(incomingJson), &data3); err3 != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error unmarshaling with struct JsonData3")
        fmt.Println("--> ", err3.Error())
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Success unmarshaling with struct JsonData3")
        fmt.Println("--> ", data3)
    }  
}

If i compile and run the code I get this output:

Success unmarshaling with struct JsonData1
-->  {1407178369 [[1.021 2.124] [2.432 3.923] [3.234 5.001]]}
Success unmarshaling with struct JsonData2
-->  {1407178369 [[1.021 2.124] [2.432 3.923] [3.234 5.001]]}
Error unmarshaling with struct JsonData3
-->  json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type float32

You can run the code here: http://play.golang.org/p/4TC0IgCI8H

Is there a way to achieve unmarshaling into struct version (c)? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The easiest way I know to do this is to define a new type and then define UnmarshalJSON for it:

type Conversions [][2]float64

func (c *Conversions) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
    tmp := [][2]json.Number{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &tmp); err != nil {
        return err
    }

    *c = make(Conversions, len(tmp))
    for i, a := range tmp {
        var (
            pair [2]float64
            err  error
        )
        pair[0], err = a[0].Float64()
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        pair[1], err = a[1].Float64()
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        (*c)[i] = pair
    }
    return nil
}

Playground, see version (d). This is not the most perfect way to do that and the algorithm can be improved to use less resources, but you get the idea.