Parsing Deeply Nested JSON in Go

raravena80@gmail.com (Ricardo Aravena) — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:28:29 +0000

Parsing deeply nested json in Go is a bit challenging due to the fact that the language doesn’t provide many helpers to do so. If you do that in Ruby or Python it’s pretty straight forward running some like this in Python j = json.load(jsonstring) or in Ruby j = JSON.load(jsonstring).

In go generally you have to prefine your structs and run through an Unmarshal function which means that most of the times you need to know ahead of time what the nest level and structure of your target json is to parse it. For example:

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Parsing Deeply Nested JSON in Go