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Automatically generate Go (golang) struct definitions from example JSON

16 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2013-01-01 · latest 2023-05-07

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  1. Check out https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson as well, been my go to for this.
    comment by jmainguy · 2023-05-07 · in How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?
  2. …would make your life a lot easier - it automatically generates the struct definitions for you. [0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
    comment by chimeracoder · 2017-12-06 · in Why I love Go
  3. …your struct definitions, in a schema-like fashion. I wrote a tool to automate that process: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson I use this as a step in the build system for the projects, which ensures that the definitions stay in sync…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2017-09-22 · in Go: Ten years and climbing
  4. Yes, it's pain! Unless you have the struct ready for unmarshalling json. I use gojson [ https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson ], it auto generates struct from json with a simple command. curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chimeracoder/go…
    comment by girishso · 2016-02-25 · in Why Go solves so many problems for web developers
  5. …you may be looking for something like https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ (by the same author) or https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson (which I've used myself). (I find that what I pay in using a static language like Go to manipulate…
    comment by jerf · 2016-02-10 · in Convert curl commands to Go code
  6. …you're sick of writing out the struct definitions yourself, you can generate them from sample JSON: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson This is especially useful when implementing REST servers/clients, because you can simply include an…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2015-11-10 · in Six years of Go
  7. …benefit, the struct value, once unmarshalled, is typesafe (which is not true in Python[1]). [0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson [1] Because Python is not only dynamically typed but strongly typed, I've more than once run into an…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2015-02-04 · in JSON, interfaces, and go generate
  8. …it all out by hand - if you have a single example JSON response, you can generate it automatically: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
    comment by chimeracoder · 2014-12-30 · in Everyday hassles in Go
  9. …JSON. There is also a CLI tool[2] that does the same. [1] http://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ [2] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
    comment by anonfunction · 2014-12-03 · in Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go
  10. …in advance, I wrote a tool for automatically generating the appropriate struct definition for it: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson (I see these as complimentary tools, rather than conflicting or competing, since they would have two…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2014-12-02 · in Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go
  11. An offline version: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
    comment by cridenour · 2014-05-31 · in Turn JSON into a useful Go Struct
  12. …manually, and a lot of type assertions compared to using map[string]interface{} everywhere. [0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
    comment by chimeracoder · 2014-03-31 · in Show HN: ffjson: faster json serialization in Go
  13. …created a tool in Go to automatically generate struct definitions, given an example JSON response: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson In the time that I've been using it (since last December), I don't think I've run into any issues…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2013-11-29 · in Announcing Scala.js v0.1
  14. …you're referring to here, but I wrote a tool to enable with mapping JSON to native Go types: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson . Basically, you specify the narrowest possible type that covers all expected (valid) inputs. If your JSON…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2013-08-14 · in Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers
  15. …but if the latter (and your data is stored in JSON), you may find this package I wrote useful: https://www.github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson Instead of unmarshalling to map[string]interface{} and then doing awkward type assertions and checks,…
    comment by chimeracoder · 2013-03-07 · in Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development
  16. …since I didn't want to generate the structs by hand. Go's reflection made this really easy. https://github.com/chimeracoder/gojson
    comment by chimeracoder · 2013-01-01 · in Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites