If you can guarantee your input is always pretty printed like that, you
could use bufio with a custom splitfunc to match `\n{`, no need to double
parse json
On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 11:35:20 PM UTC+2 greg.sa...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I've tried this suggestion and although its certainly a bit more
> refactoring then I expected - the outcome looks to be exactly as you
> described here.
>
> Thank you so much for the suggestion, take a bow!
>
> - Greg
>
>
> On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 12:15:34 PM UTC-7 Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> No, it's even simpler than that:
>>
>> * The first call to decoder.Decode() will return the first object in the
>> stream.
>> * The second call to decoder.Decode() will return the second object in
>> the stream.
>> * And so on...
>>
>> By "object" I mean top-level object: everything between the opening "{"
>> and its matching closing "}", including all its nested values. (Define a
>> struct which contains all the nested attributes, for it to be deserialized
>> into).
>>
>> If an io.Reader stream consists of a series of separate JSON objects - as
>> yours does - then you get one object at a time. They don't have to be
>> separated by whitespace or newlines, but they can be.
>>
>> Don't think about seeking. I don't know the internals of
>> decoder.Decode(), but I would expect that it reads in chunks from the
>> io.Reader. This means it will likely overshoot the object boundaries, but
>> will buffer the excess and process it on the next call to Decode.
>>
>
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