What is the correct way to work with json in Go?

Question

go

There is json type

{"type": "type_string", "object": {"field1": 1, "field2" : "text"}}

And there's a structure

type Event struct {
  Type    string `json:"type"`
  Object  []byte `json:"object"`
}

which I am trying to parse with

var event Event
err = json.Unmarshal(body, &event)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

Then, depending on the type, I can parse the contents of the Object field, but I get the error "json: cannot unmarshal object into Go struct field Event.object of type []uint8"

How can this be done?

Answer 1

You need to replace Object []byte with Object json.RawMessage