Part of the JSON I'm trying to unmarshal has an array that can contain either strings or ints. How would I go about parsing this?
{
"id": "abc",
"values": [1,2,3]
},
{
"id": "def",
"values": ["elephant", "tomato", "arrow"]
},
{
//etc...
}
I tried the following:
type Thing struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Values []string `json:"values,string,omitempty"`
}
Get the following error:
panic: json: cannot unmarshal array into Go struct field Thing.values of type string
You can set the type of the field Values to []interface{}, but you might have to use some type assertions.
Here is a link to a playground where I use the data you provided: https://play.golang.org/p/ahePgggr8o1
I will paste the code here anyways:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"encoding/json"
)
type Thing struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Values []interface{} `json:"values,omitempty"`
}
func print(values []interface{}) {
for _, v := range values{
switch value := v.(type){
case string:
fmt.Println("String", value)
case int:
fmt.Println("Integer", value)
case float64:
fmt.Println("Floats", value)
default:
fmt.Printf("I don't know about type %T!
", v)
}
}
}
func main() {
var t1, t2 Thing
data := []byte("{ \"id\": \"abc\", \"values\": [1,2,3]}")
data2 := []byte("{ \"id\": \"def\", \"values\": [\"elephant\", \"tomato\", \"arrow\"]}")
_ = json.Unmarshal(data, &t1)
_ = json.Unmarshal(data2, &t2)
print(t1.Values)
print(t2.Values)
}