I have to unmarshal a series of Json objects, but one of the objects contain a json array which is not really structured in a good way.
"labels": [
{
"key": "owner",
"value": "harry"
},
{
"key": "group",
"value": "student"
}
]
I am unmarshalling it using this struct -
type StudentDetails struct {
Id string `json:"id"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Labels []Label `json:"labels,omitempty"`
}
type Label struct {
Key string `json:"key"`
Value string `json:"value"`
}
And I have to access it using x.Labels[0].key == "owner" inside a for loop which is very annoying. I want to be able to do x.Labels.Owner == "harry" instead. How do I go about achieving this? The rest of JSON is unmarshalled fine using the default unmarshal function, so I don't think writing custom function will be good option.
With the constraints you have here, this is about as close as you will get (run in playground):
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
j := `
{
"id": "42",
"name": "Marvin",
"labels": [
{
"key": "owner",
"value": "harry"
},
{
"key": "group",
"value": "student"
}
]
}`
d := StudentDetails{}
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(j), &d)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(d.Labels["owner"])
fmt.Println(d.Labels["group"])
}
type StudentDetails struct {
Id string `json:"id"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Labels Labels `json:"labels"`
}
type Labels map[string]string
func (l *Labels) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
a := []map[string]string{}
err := json.Unmarshal(b, &a)
if err != nil {
return err
}
t := map[string]string{}
for _, m := range a {
t[m["key"]] = m["value"]
}
*l = t
return nil
}
How about to define custom []Label
type and add function on it.
For instance
type Labels []Label
func (l Labels) Owner() string {
if len(l) > 1 {
return l[0].Value
}
return ""
}