Working with JSON
Explore how to work with JSON data in Go by mastering marshaling and unmarshaling using the encoding/json package. Understand how JSON tags map Go structure fields to JSON fields and troubleshoot common issues with exported fields. Gain practical experience converting data for network transmission and storage.
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The Go standard library includes encoding/json, which is for working with JSON data. Additionally, Go allows us to add support for JSON fields in Go structures using tags. Tags control the encoding and decoding of JSON records to and from Go structures. But first, we should talk about marshaling and unmarshaling JSON records.
Using Marshal() and Unmarshal()
Both the marshaling and unmarshaling of JSON data are important procedures for working with JSON data using Go ...