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# mapstructure [![Godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure) |
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mapstructure is a Go library for decoding generic map values to structures |
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and vice versa, while providing helpful error handling. |
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This library is most useful when decoding values from some data stream (JSON, |
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Gob, etc.) where you don't _quite_ know the structure of the underlying data |
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until you read a part of it. You can therefore read a `map[string]interface{}` |
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and use this library to decode it into the proper underlying native Go |
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structure. |
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## Installation |
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Standard `go get`: |
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$ go get github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure |
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``` |
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## Usage & Example |
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For usage and examples see the [Godoc](http://godoc.org/github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure). |
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The `Decode` function has examples associated with it there. |
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## But Why?! |
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Go offers fantastic standard libraries for decoding formats such as JSON. |
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The standard method is to have a struct pre-created, and populate that struct |
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from the bytes of the encoded format. This is great, but the problem is if |
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you have configuration or an encoding that changes slightly depending on |
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specific fields. For example, consider this JSON: |
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```json |
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{ |
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"type": "person", |
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"name": "Mitchell" |
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} |
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Perhaps we can't populate a specific structure without first reading |
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the "type" field from the JSON. We could always do two passes over the |
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decoding of the JSON (reading the "type" first, and the rest later). |
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However, it is much simpler to just decode this into a `map[string]interface{}` |
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structure, read the "type" key, then use something like this library |
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to decode it into the proper structure. |