I have a Golang struct called Person
where all the properties have to be exported:
type Person struct {
Id string
Name string
}
Now I need to encode my MongoDB BSON response to this Person
struct. The BSON looks like:
{
"_id": "ajshJSH78N",
"Name": "Athavan Kanapuli"
}
The Golang code to encode the BSON is:
mongoRecord := Person{}
c := response.session.DB("mydb").C("users")
err := c.Find(bson.M{"username": Credentials.Username, "password": Credentials.Password}).One(&mongoRecord)
The Problem:
_id
is not getting encoded into Id
Person
property into _Id
, then it won't be exported.How can I solve this problem?
Define your struct with json
tag-
type Person struct {
Id string `json:"_id"`
Name string // this field match with json, so mapping not need
}
I tried to put a json tag like ,
type Person struct {
Id string `json:"_id"`
Name string // this field match with json, so mapping not need
}
But still it didn't work. Because the Mongodb returns '_id' which is of type bson.ObjectId . Hence changing the Struct tag to bson:"_id"
and the type of the Person struct has been changed from string to bson.ObjectId. The changes done are as follows ,
type Person struct {
Id bson.ObjectId `bson:"_id"`
Name string
UserName string
IsAdmin bool
IsApprover bool
}
And It works!