better and more idiomatic support for JSON marshalling/unmarshalling about gods HOT 5 CLOSED

@genez my guess is that I misunderstood the question, please correct me if so. There is JSON serialization/deserialization: https://github.com/emirpasic/gods#serialization

Let me know if that is what you are looking for?

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I am talking about standard json encoding/decoding facilities as provided by stdlib:
https://blog.golang.org/json-and-go

If your structs implement these two functions (MarshalJSON, UnmarshalJSON) we are able to recursively marshal struct that are embedding one of your data structures in a seamless way.

I hope it's clear enough, feel free to ask for more details.

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@genez I get your point, the marshalling would be easy to implement, because the logic is already there.

However, unmarshalling is a bit problematic, if you get a JSON array, what should it be unmarshalled to? ArrayList, LinkedList, Stack, etc.

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Go's marshal stdlib requires the actual struct instance (a pointer to) that must be of the required type.
Maybe I can try to implement one so it becomes clear.

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@genez please do, just one example, e.g. for ArrayList.

You can make use of the already implemented GoDS deserialization:

  list := arraylist.New()
  json := []byte(`["a","b"]`)
  err := list.FromJSON(json)

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