What's wrong with the first one? The second one doesn't work because there are not interface composite literals. So you need to actually have an interface{} variable to take the address of. The third one seems to work just fine: https://play.golang.org/p/zn2mL69VzPo
On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:32 PM Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > This works: > > var z interface{} > if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&z); err != nil { > t.Fatal(err) > } > > but this doesn't work: > > if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&interface{}{}); err != nil { > t.Fatal(err) > } > > and this doesn't work: > > if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&struct{}{}); err != nil { > t.Fatal(err) > } > > > my goal is to unmarshal to an anonymous variable and discard it, as part > of a test. Is there a way to do this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8f58f470-8055-49bc-a248-92a496473f8bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8f58f470-8055-49bc-a248-92a496473f8bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfHrVdqn87qWHuxWnyBD%3Dn8y0qr8WcQdjH6RG5zcv-OAtA%40mail.gmail.com.