CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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kenticny
kenticny

Reputation: 527

Golang mapping JSON into struct

I have a struct as below:

type Item struct {
  ID         int16 `json:"id"`
  SubItem    *Item `json:"sub_item"`
}

And the JSON as below:

{
  "id": 100,
  "sub_item": 110
}

If I use json.Unmarshal(json, &item), the json field sub_item is the Item.ID, so cannot mapping into struct.

I want to find the SubItem by the subitem id before json unmarshal, but I don't know how to do it. Or is there any way to resolve this problem? thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 264

Answers (1)

LucianoQ
LucianoQ

Reputation: 96

*Item is a golang pointer to a struct. It cannot contain a int16 (that is a "pointer" in your json semantic).

You can handle this programmatically after Unmarshaling.

Struct must be:

type Item struct {
    ID         int16 `json:"id"`
    SubItem    *Item
    SubItemInt int16 `json:"sub_item"`
}

and then you should do something like this:

items := make(map[int16]*Item)
[...]
for k := range items {
    items[k].SubItem = items[items[k].SubItemInt]
}

Upvotes: 4

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