I've following json
[{"href":"/publication/192a7f47-84c1-445e-a615-ff82d92e2eaa/article/b;version=1493756861347"},{"href":"/publication/192a7f47-84c1-445e-a615-ff82d92e2eaa/article/a;version=1493756856398"}]
Based on the given answer I've tried following
var objmap map[string]*json.RawMessage
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &objmap)
I'm getting empty array with following error. any suggestions?
json: cannot unmarshal array into Go value of type map[string]*json.RawMessage
Your json
is an array of objects, in Go the encoding/json
package marshals/unmarshals maps
to/from a json object and not an array, so you might want to allocate a slice of maps
instead.
var objs []map[string]*json.RawMessage
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &objs); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
https://play.golang.org/p/3lieuNkoUU
If you don't want to use a slice you can always wrap your json array in an object.
var dataobj = `{"arr":` + data + `}`
var objmap map[string]*json.RawMessage
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(dataobj), &objmap); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
You can unmarshall to a []map[string]interface{}
as follows:
var objmap map[string]interface{}
if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &objmap); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(objmap[0]["href"]) // to parse out your value
To see more on how unmarshalling works see here: https://godoc.org/encoding/json#Unmarshal