Combine Multiple Field Tags in Go

I work a lot with JSON APIs in my Go projects, so almost every struct has some field tags on it to translate AccountID into account_id and that sort of thing. Then one day I needed to load data from config using mapstructure and it took a few attempts with the search engine to find the syntax I needed, so it’s here for next time I need it (or in case you need it too).

Combining JSON and Mapstructure

An example truly is worth a thousand words! (This one is from the code that drives the neopixel shelf):

// assemble the options
$opts = array(
  'http'=>array(
    'header'=> "Authorization: Bearer " . $access_token
  )
);
// create the context
$context = stream_context_create($opts);

// now make the request! Use the context and simply output the result
echo file_get_contents('http://api.example.com/endpoint1', false, $context);

It turns out that the reason I couldn’t find examples of how to combine struct field tags is because you don’t! You just add each one required, followed by a space, and then the next, and so on. How simple, how elegant … how Go!


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