Handle JSON with ease in golang.

Goson was created to simplify reading JSON data within Golang. This library has been inspired by SwiftyJSON

go get github.com/panthesingh/goson

Create a goson object from JSON data. Returns an error if the data is not valid JSON.

g, err := goson.Parse(data)

Every Get() call will return another goson object. You can access the underlying data with a value function. The default value types are float64, int, bool, string. If the key does not exist the function will return the default zero value. To check if a key exists read the section on existence.

name := g.Get("name").String()
age := g.Get("age").Int()
weight := g.Get("weight").Float()
married := g.Get("married").Bool()

Chaining is a nice way to quickly traverse the data and grab what you need.

g.Get("key").Get("object").Index(0).Get("item").String()

To check if a value exists use a type check on the Value() function. This returns the underlying value as an interface{}.

v, ok := g.Get("key").Value().(string)
if !ok {
  println("key does not exist")
}

Calling Len() will return len() on the underlying value. You can use the Index() function to loop through all the values.

for i := 0; i < g.Len(); i++ {
    name := g.Index(i).Get("name").String()
    age := g.Index(i).Get("age").Int()
}

A very useful feature is pretty printing the JSON structure at any value. Likewise calling String() returns the same string.

v := g.Get("child")
fmt.Println(v)

package main

import (
  "github.com/panthesingh/goson"
)

func main() {

  json := `{
    "name": "Bob",
    "age": 100,
    "cars": [
      "Honda",
      "Toyota"
    ],
    "details": {
      "weight": 160.5,
      "married": false
    }
  }`

  g, _ := goson.Parse([]byte(json))
  name := g.Get("name").String()
  age := g.Get("age").Int()
  cars := g.Get("cars")
  carOne := car.Index(0).String()
  carTwo := car.Index(1).String()
  weight := g.Get("details").Get("weight").String()
  married := g.Get("details").Get("married").Bool()

}

Documentation can be found on godoc:

https://godoc.org/github.com/panthesingh/goson

Panthe Singh, http://twitter.com/panthesingh