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RexFuzzle
RexFuzzle

Reputation: 1432

Map of Struct from json in Golang

So I am trying to parse a json into some structs and that works ok with the following:

type train struct {
 ID     string  `json:"id"`
 Price  float64 `json:"price,string"`
 Distance float64 `json:"Distance,string"`
}

type Station struct {
 ID       int64  `json:"id,string"`
 arrTrain []train`json:"arr"`
 depTrain []train`json:"dep"`
}

The problem, however, is that I would like to easily be able to reference the items in arrTrain and depTrain using their ID, so I think I need to change the Station struct to have arrTrain and depTrain as maps with the ID as the key. Is this possible when parsing the json or does it have to be 'post-processed'?

EDIT: As stated in one of the comments, unfortunately my json is in the following form:

{
  "id":1, 
  "arr": [
     {"id":"one","price":"$10.1","Distance":"100km"},
     {...}
  ],
  "dep":[
    {"id":"one","price":"$10.1","Distance":"100km"},
    {...}
  ]
}

In other words the ID is not on the outside of the json object and arrTrain is list.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8324

Answers (2)

Benjamin Kadish
Benjamin Kadish

Reputation: 1500

Edit: Yes you can. (an earlier version of this answer stated keys can only be strings, but as of 1.7 this is not true)

You can see this in action with this playground

Also as conner points out in the comments your field names will have to be exportable for encoding/json to work

type Station struct {
    ID       int64            `json:"id,string"`
    ArrTrain map[string]train `json:"arr"`
    DepTrain map[string]train `json:"dep"`
}

Upvotes: 1

netdigger
netdigger

Reputation: 86

Yes, you can define station like this:

type Station struct {
    ID       int64            `json:"id,string"`
    arrTrain map[string]train `json:"arr"`
    depTrain map[string]train `json:"dep"`
}

And your JSON should like this

{
  "id":1, 
  "arr": {
    "one":{"id":"one","price":"$10.1","Distance":"100km"},
    "two":...
  },
  "dep":{
    "one":{"id":"one","price":"$10.1","Distance":"100km"},
    "two":...
  }
}

Upvotes: 2

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