CODEWITHSUNDEEP
jsongo
demi
demi

Reputation: 5504

Go: JSON value not parsed?

I have very simple test: http://play.golang.org/p/wY4sN9AUky. Config parsed from JSON, first string value parsed OK, but second parsed to empty string, but it is not.

type Config struct {
    Address      string "address"
    Debug        bool   "debug"
    DbUrl        string "dburl"
    GoogleApiKey string "google_api_key"
}

func (cfg *Config) read(json_code string) {
    if e := json.Unmarshal([]byte(json_code), cfg); e != nil {
        log.Printf("ERROR JSON decode: %v", e)
    }
}

func main() {
    var config Config
    config.read(`{
  "address": "10.0.0.2:8080",
  "debug": true,
  "dburl": "localhost",
  "google_api_key": "the-key"
}`)
    log.Printf("api key %s", config.GoogleApiKey)  // <- empty string. why?
    log.Printf("address %v", config.Address)
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1507

Answers (1)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 38849

You're specifying your JSON names incorrectly in the struct.

GoogleApiKey string "google_api_key"

should be

GoogleApiKey string `json:"google_api_key"`

The JSON package looks for the json header in the text. The backtick delimits a raw string which allows us to include the quotes around google_api_key.

http://play.golang.org/p/KNxYhzGLAp

package main

import (
  "log"
  "encoding/json"
)

type Config struct {
  Address string `json:"address"`
  Debug bool `json:"debug"`
  DbUrl string `json:"dburl"`
  GoogleApiKey string `json:"google_api_key"`
}

func (cfg *Config) read(json_code string) {
  if e := json.Unmarshal([]byte(json_code), cfg); e != nil {
    log.Printf("ERROR JSON decode: %v", e)
  }
}

func main() {
  var config Config
  config.read(`{
  "address": "10.0.0.2:8080",
  "debug": true,
  "dburl": "localhost",
  "google_api_key": "the-key"
}`)
  log.Printf("api key %s", config.GoogleApiKey)
  log.Printf("address %v", config.Address)
}

Upvotes: 4

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