Golang JSON Marshal/Unmarshal on struct containing byte arrays [duplicate] - json

Question

type TestObject struct {
kind string `json:"kind"`
id string `json:"id, omitempty"`
name string `json:"name"`
email string `json:"email"`
}
func TestCreateSingleItemResponse(t *testing.T) {
testObject := new(TestObject)
testObject.kind = "TestObject"
testObject.id = "f73h5jf8"
testObject.name = "Yuri Gagarin"
testObject.email = "Yuri.Gagarin#Vostok.com"
fmt.Println(testObject)
b, err := json.Marshal(testObject)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println(string(b[:]))
}
Here is the output:
[ `go test -test.run="^TestCreateSingleItemResponse$"` | done: 2.195666095s ]
{TestObject f73h5jf8 Yuri Gagarin Yuri.Gagarin#Vostok.com}
{}
PASS
Why is the JSON essentially empty?

Answer 1

You need to export the fields in TestObject by capitalizing the first letter in the field name. Change kind to Kind and so on.
type TestObject struct {
Kind string `json:"kind"`
Id string `json:"id,omitempty"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Email string `json:"email"`
}
The encoding/json package and similar packages ignore unexported fields.
The `json:"..."` strings that follow the field declarations are struct tags. The tags in this struct set the names of the struct's fields when marshaling to and from JSON.
Ru it on the playground.

Answer 2

When the first letter is capitalised, the identifier is public to any
piece of code that you want to use.
When the first letter is lowercase, the identifier is private and
could only be accessed within the package it was declared.
Examples
var aName // private
var BigBro // public (exported)
var 123abc // illegal
func (p *Person) SetEmail(email string) { // public because SetEmail() function starts with upper case
p.email = email
}
func (p Person) email() string { // private because email() function starts with lower case
return p.email
}

Answer 3

In golang
in struct first letter must uppercase
ex. phonenumber -> PhoneNumber
======= Add detail
First, I'm try coding like this
type Questions struct {
id string
questionDesc string
questionID string
ans string
choices struct {
choice1 string
choice2 string
choice3 string
choice4 string
}
}
golang compile is not error and not show warning. But response is empty because something
After that, I search google found this article
Struct Types and Struct Type Literals
Article then... I try edit code.
//Questions map field name like database
type Questions struct {
ID string
QuestionDesc string
QuestionID string
Ans string
Choices struct {
Choice1 string
Choice2 string
Choice3 string
Choice4 string
}
}
Is work.
Hope for help.