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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.9.1 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/patientplatypus/Documents/golang"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/opt/go/libexec"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/opt/go/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/0q/_p03fcl11012llbls0r0bwp00000gn/T/go-build986239688=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

The issue.

On the front I send a POST request with {charactername: "Frodo"}

type Character struct {
	Charactername string
}

function IO(r, w){
        var incomingjson Character
	log.Print("value of r.Body: ", r.Body)
	decoder := json.NewDecoder(r.Body)
	log.Print("after json decoder")
	err := decoder.Decode(&incomingjson)
        charactername = incomingjson.Character
        log.Print(charactername)
}

This prints "".

However if I use

type Character struct {
	Charactername string
        Garbagevariable whatevertype
}

It will print "Frodo".

This is an annoying bug that cost me time. Please fix this