Get keys and values from json.Decoder

Question

Playing with Golang in my spare time. Trying to perform typical web task: get json from GET request and print its values.

type Weather struct {
    name string
}
// some code
decoder := json.NewDecoder(res.Body)
for {
        var weather Weather
        if err := decoder.Decode(&weather); err == io.EOF {
            break
        } else if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
        fmt.Println(weather.name)
    }

JSON:

{"coord":{"lon":145.77,"lat":-16.92},"weather":[{"id":801,"main":"Clouds","description":"few clouds","icon":"02n"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":300.15,"pressure":1007,"humidity":74,"temp_min":300.15,"temp_max":300.15},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":2.6,"deg":260},"clouds":{"all":20},"dt":1455633000,"sys":{"type":1,"id":8166,"message":0.0314,"country":"AU","sunrise":1455567124,"sunset":1455612583},"id":2172797,"name":"Cairns","cod":200}

As I understand, I need to declare a struct to get json values, but it prints nothing. What is my mistake?

And what if I need to operate json with unknown fields? Is there a way to construct map directly from json?

elithrar · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-16 15:31:41Z

1

Your 'name' field within your Weather struct is unexported. Field types must be exported for other packages to see them (and therefore, unmarshal/decode into them): https://tour.golang.org/basics/3

You can use struct tags to map Go field names to JSON keys as well:

type Weather struct {
    Name string `json:"name"`
}

... and for the future, you can use https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ to auto-generate Go structs from JSON.

answered Feb 16, 2016 at 15:31

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