Cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type int64
Solution 1
This is handled by adding ,string
to your tag as follows:
type tySurvey struct {
Id int64 `json:"id,string,omitempty"`
Name string `json:"name,omitempty"`
}
This can be found about halfway through the documentation for Marshal.
Please note that you cannot decode the empty string by specifying omitempty
as it is only used when encoding.
Solution 2
use json.Number
type tySurvey struct {
Id json.Number `json:"id,omitempty"`
Name string `json:"name,omitempty"`
}
Solution 3
You could also create a type alias for int or int64 and create a custom json unmarshaler Sample code:
// StringInt create a type alias for type int
type StringInt int
// UnmarshalJSON create a custom unmarshal for the StringInt
/// this helps us check the type of our value before unmarshalling it
func (st *StringInt) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
//convert the bytes into an interface
//this will help us check the type of our value
//if it is a string that can be converted into a int we convert it
///otherwise we return an error
var item interface{}
if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &item); err != nil {
return err
}
switch v := item.(type) {
case int:
*st = StringInt(v)
case float64:
*st = StringInt(int(v))
case string:
///here convert the string into
///an integer
i, err := strconv.Atoi(v)
if err != nil {
///the string might not be of integer type
///so return an error
return err
}
*st = StringInt(i)
}
return nil
}
func main() {
type Item struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
ItemId StringInt `json:"item_id"`
}
jsonData := []byte(`{"name":"item 1","item_id":"30"}`)
var item Item
err := json.Unmarshal(jsonData, &item)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%+v\n", item)
}
Max
Updated on April 25, 2021Comments
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Max about 3 years
I have struct
type tySurvey struct { Id int64 `json:"id,omitempty"` Name string `json:"name,omitempty"` }
I do
json.Marshal
write JSON bytes in HTML page. jQuery modifiesname
field in object and encodes object using jQueriesJSON.stringify
and jQuery posts string to Go handler.id
field encoded as string.Sent:
{"id":1}
Received:{"id":"1"}
Problem is that
json.Unmarshal
fails to unmarshal that JSON becauseid
is not integer anymore.json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type int64
What is best way to handle such data? I do not wish to manually convert every field. I wish to write compact, bug free code.
Quotes is not too bad. JavaScript does not work well with int64.
I would like to learn the easy way to unmarshal json with string values in int64 values.
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Taku about 6 yearsThis would work if
id
does not come in as integer. Otherwise, you'd get an error "invalid use of ,string struct tag..." -
Rami H over 3 yearsThis is the correct answer. the accepted answer doesnt work