I have a requirement in which I need to store array of objects in a variable. The objects are of different types. Refer to following example:
v := [ {"name":"ravi"},
["art","coding","music","travel"],
{"language":"golang"},
{"experience":"no"}
]
Notice the second element is array of string itself. After research, I thought of storing this as interface type like:
var v interface{} = [ {"name":"ravi"},
["art","coding","music","travel"],
{"language":"golang"},
{"experience":"no"}
]
Still, I am getting few compilation errors which I am not able to find out.
What you're asking for is possible -- playground link:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
v := []interface{}{
map[string]string{"name": "ravi"},
[]string{"art", "coding", "music", "travel"},
map[string]string{"language": "golang"},
map[string]string{"experience": "no"},
}
fmt.Println(v)
}
But you probably don't want to be doing this. You're fighting the type system, I would question why you're using Go if you were doing it like this. Consider leveraging the type system -- playground link:
package main
import "fmt"
type candidate struct {
name string
interests []string
language string
experience bool
}
func main() {
candidates := []candidate{
{
name: "ravi",
interests: []string{"art", "coding", "music", "travel"},
language: "golang",
experience: false,
},
}
fmt.Println(candidates)
}
Perfect python syntax, but go unfortunately use something less readable. https://golang.org/ref/spec#Composite_literals