Commit 08570458 authored by Josh Bleecher Snyder's avatar Josh Bleecher Snyder Committed by Andrew Gerrand

encoding/json: add an example for RawMessage

RawMessage is useful and mildly non-obvious.
Given the frequency with which RawMessage questions
show up on golang-nuts, and get answered with an example,
I suspect adding an example to the docs might help.

R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14190044
parent d38ed2a9
......@@ -81,3 +81,49 @@ func ExampleDecoder() {
// Sam: Go fmt who?
// Ed: Go fmt yourself!
}
// This example uses RawMessage to delay parsing part of a JSON message.
func ExampleRawMessage() {
type Color struct {
Space string
Point json.RawMessage // delay parsing until we know the color space
}
type RGB struct {
R uint8
G uint8
B uint8
}
type YCbCr struct {
Y uint8
Cb int8
Cr int8
}
var j = []byte(`[
{"Space": "YCbCr", "Point": {"Y": 255, "Cb": 0, "Cr": -10}},
{"Space": "RGB", "Point": {"R": 98, "G": 218, "B": 255}}
]`)
var colors []Color
err := json.Unmarshal(j, &colors)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalln("error:", err)
}
for _, c := range colors {
var dst interface{}
switch c.Space {
case "RGB":
dst = new(RGB)
case "YCbCr":
dst = new(YCbCr)
}
err := json.Unmarshal(c.Point, dst)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalln("error:", err)
}
fmt.Println(c.Space, dst)
}
// Output:
// YCbCr &{255 0 -10}
// RGB &{98 218 255}
}
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