I am currently unable to unmarshall the data correctly from a map into a structure. Following is a code snippet (Brief Code at playground):
Request you to kindly provide the reason of getting default values on unmarshlling back the data.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"encoding/json"
"os"
)
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, playground")
type PDPOffer struct {
cart_value int `json:"cart_value"`
discount_amount_default int `json:"discount_amount_default"`
max_discount string `json:"max_discount"`
}
a:= map[string]interface{} {
"cart_value" : 1,
"max_discount" : 2,
}
var pdf PDPOffer
b, err := json.Marshal(a)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error:", err)
}
os.Stdout.Write(b)//working
err1 := json.Unmarshal(b, &pdf)
if err1 != nil {
fmt.Println("error:", err)
}
fmt.Printf("%+v", pdf)//displaying just the defualt values????????
}
json.Marshal
and json.Unmarshal
can only work on exported struct fields. Your fields aren't exported and aren't visible to the json code.
The reason for your unmarshal not working is that you need to expose fields of the struct and for doing that you need to start field name with Capital letters. Something has below:
type PDPOffer struct {
Cart_value int `json:"cart_value"`
Discount_amount_default int `json:"discount_amount_default"`
Max_discount string `json:"max_discount"`
}
Also, you were trying to marshal an int value into a string for "max_discount", you need to store it as a string in your map that you're marshaling:
a := map[string]interface{}{
"cart_value": 1,
"max_discount": "2",
}
The error handling had a bug checking for err1 != nil
then printing err
which was hiding the message error: json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type string
Working example with all the fixes: http://play.golang.org/p/L8VC-531nS