Why Is Go Json. Marshal Rejecting These Struct Tags? What Is Proper Syntax for Json Tags? [Duplicate]
I Am Trying to Use Json. Marshal but It Refuses to Accept My Struct Tags. What Am I Doing Wrong? Here Is the Source Code for "Marshal. Go" Package Main Import...
I am trying to use json.Marshal but it refuses to accept my struct tags.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is the source code for "marshal.go"
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
type Person struct {
Name string `json: "name"`
Age int `json: "age"`
}
func main() {
p := Person{Name: "Alice", Age: 29}
bytes, _ := json.Marshal(p)
fmt.Println("JSON = ", string(bytes))
}
I get these error messages from "go vet marshal.go"
./marshal.go:9: struct field tag `json: "name"` not compatible with reflect.StructTag.Get: bad syntax for struct tag value
./marshal.go:10: struct field tag `json: "age"` not compatible with reflect.StructTag.Get: bad syntax for struct tag value
I get this output when I run the program.
% ./marshal
JSON = {"Name":"Alice","Age":29}
Notice the field names match the Go structure and ignore the json tags.
What am I missing?
Oh my goodness! I just figured it out. There is no space allowed between json: and the field name "name".
The "go vet" error message ("bad syntax") is remarkably unhelpful.
The following code works. Can you see the difference?
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
type Person struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
Age int `json:"age"`
}
func main() {
p := Person{Name: "Alice", Age: 29}
bytes, _ := json.Marshal(p)
fmt.Println("JSON = ", string(bytes))
}