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JSON Tricks: The Self-Referencing Marshaler
For more content like this, buy my in-progress eBook, Data Serialization in Go, and get updates immediately as they are added! The content in this post is included in my in-progress eBook, Data Serialization in Go, available on LeanPub. I’ve done a lot of JSON handling in Go. In the process, I’ve learned a number of tricks to solve specific problems. But one pattern in particular I find myself repeating ad infinitum.
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JSON Tricks: Extending an Embedded Marshaler
How can you embed a struct with a custom MarshalJSON() method?
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JSON Tricks: JSON Arrays as Go Structs
How can you marshal and unmarshal JSON array as though it were a struct in Go?
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JSON Tricks: "Slightly" Custom Marshaling
For more content like this, buy my in-progress eBook, Data Serialization in Go, and get updates immediately as they are added! Have you ever found yourself writing a custom JSON marshaler in Go, because you needed something only slightly different than what the standard JSON marshaler provides? Maybe the consumer of your JSON payload expects an array where you have a single item. Or maybe you need to nest your object one level deeper in your JSON than is used in your application.