I have the following JSON
{"student_number":1234567, "name":"John Doe", "subjects":"Chemistry-Maths-History-Geography"}
I would like to unmarshal it in a struct, where one item (the subjects) are split on '-' into a []string
.
type Student struct {
StudentNumber int `json:"student_number"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Subjects []string
}
I have attempted several different ways of achieving this with custom Unmarshalling using strings.Split()
, but have not succeeded so far.
Is there any way to achieve this in the unmarshalling process? Or will I need to simply unmarshal as is and make the conversion afterward?
Easiest would be to define your own string slice type and implement json.Unmarshaler
on that:
type strslice []string
func (ss *strslice) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
var s string
if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &s); err != nil {
return err
}
*ss = strings.Split(s, "-")
return nil
}
And use this in your struct:
type Student struct {
StudentNumber int `json:"student_number"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Subjects strslice `json:"subjects"`
}
And then it'll work:
func main() {
var s Student
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(src), &s)
fmt.Println(s, err)
}
const src = `{"student_number":1234567, "name":"John Doe", "subjects":"Chemistry-Maths-History-Geography"}`
Output (try it on the Go Playground):
{1234567 John Doe [Chemistry Maths History Geography]} <nil>