I am consuming a REST API that returns XML and am trying to Unmarshal the XML and am having issues that appear that the omitempty
is not working. Here is an example of a working XML file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<customer uri="/api/customers/339/" id="339">
<name>
<first>Firstname</first>
<last>Lastname</last>
</name>
<email>myemail@example.com</email>
<billing>
<address>
<address1>123 Main St.</address123>
<address2></address2>
<city>Nowhere</city>
<state>IA</state>
<country>USA</country>
<zip>12345</zip>
</address>
</billing>
</customer>
Here is an example of a "bad" record
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<customer uri="/api/customers/6848/" id="6848">
<name>
<first>Firstname</first>
<last>Lastname</last>
</name>
<email/>
<billing/>
</customer>
Now I have my structs set up like the following:
type Customer struct {
ID int `xml:"id,attr"`
Name *Name `xml:"name,omitempty"`
Billing *Billing `xml:"billing,omitempty"`
}
type Billing struct {
Address *Address `xml:"address,omitempty"`
}
type Address struct {
address_1 string `xml:",omitempty"`
address_2 string `xml:",omitempty"`
city string `xml:",omitempty"`
postal string `xml:",omitempty"`
country string `xml:",omitempty"`
}
type Name struct {
first, last string
}
Reading through all of the records it works when the XML follows the pattern of the first example <billing></billing>
but when it hits a record that has something like <billing/>
it throws the following error: panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
Can someone help me figure out what's going on and how to resolve it?