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encoding/json: unmarshal failed once you implemtned UnmarshalText interface #15671

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hsinhoyeh opened this issue May 13, 2016 · 3 comments
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encoding/json: unmarshal failed once you implemtned UnmarshalText interface #15671

hsinhoyeh opened this issue May 13, 2016 · 3 comments
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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

  1. What version of Go are you using (go version)?
    1.6.2
  2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"

we suffered an issue with json/unmarshal.
the following example works well as we expected

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/json"
)

type Bar struct {
        BIntField    int    `json:"b_int_field"`
        BStringField string `json:"b_string_field"`
}

func main() {

    b := `{"b_int_field":101,"b_string_field":"bar"}`

    v := &Bar{}
    fmt.Println(json.Unmarshal([]byte(b), v)    )
    fmt.Println(v)
}

but everything mess up when we added an interface UnmarshalText interface to Bar structure

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/json"
)

type Bar struct {
        BIntField    int    `json:"b_int_field"`
        BStringField string `json:"b_string_field"`
}

func (b *Bar) UnmarshalText(t []byte) error{
    return nil
}


func main() {

    b := `{"b_int_field":101,"b_string_field":"bar"}`

    v := &Bar{}
    fmt.Println(json.Unmarshal([]byte(b), v)    )
    fmt.Println(v)
}

I think it is a bug cuz I cannot find any documentation for this. thanks
@ianlancetaylor
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The UnmarshalText method decodes a JSON string into the object. In your example you do not have a string, you have an object, so the JSON decoder does not know what to do.

Questions about how to use UnmarshalText would be better handled in a forum rather than the issue tracker. Please see https://golang.org/wiki/Questions . Thanks.

@hsinhoyeh
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Hi @ianlancetaylor
thansk for your prompt reply and close the issue.
But I don't think you understand my problem properly.
what I was trying to say is "when using json to unmarshal a structure, i.e. Bar in this example, it will fail once Bar structure ever impled TextUnmarshaler interface". But you didn't explain any thing about that.

Seems that if a structure impled a TextMarshaler interface, it will get error here
https://golang.org/src/encoding/json/decode.go#L567

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I don't see a bug report here. Please see https://golang.org/wiki/Questions .

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