Thanks for the pointers.
I was hoping for an easier answer. Maybe will look into patching stdlib.
Eric.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 1:15 AM Brian Candler wrote:
> Looks like your thoughts are the right ones:
>
>
Looks like your thoughts are the right ones:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33436730/unmarshal-json-with-some-known-and-some-unknown-field-names
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Understand all that. It doesn't help.
Asking the question a different way, as concrete code always clarifies. For
something like the following snippet of code:
const testJSON = `{
"first_name": "first",
"last_name": "last",
"favorite_color": "orange",
"age": 92
}`
func TestUnmarshalling(t
Take a Look at
https://blog.golang.org/json-and-go:
The json package uses map[string]interface{} and []interface{}values to
store arbitrary JSON objects and arrays; it will happily unmarshal any
valid JSON blob into a plain interface{} value. The default concrete Go
types are:
- bool for JSON
If I've got a structure like this:
type jsonData struct {
FirstName string `json:"first_name"`
LastName string `json:"last_name"`
}
I can marshal / unmarshal JSON as:
{
"first_name": "first",
"last_name": "last"
}
What if my input JSON is this:
{
"first_name": "first",
