Hi, There is a difference in the way MarshalJSON of a struct is called when an instance of a struct is either part of an array or embedded directly inside another object. I am not sure if it is a bug or if it is the intended behavior.
Please see the Go source available at: https://play.golang.org/p/NpWj4VAjrz I have a custom struct `CustomTime` which has a MarshalJSON and an UnmarshalJSON function. Now I have a struct `Item`, which has an instance of the above `CustomTime` struct. There are two other structs, ItemsArray and ItemsMember where Item is part of an array or a direct member. type ItemsArray struct { Items []Item } type ItemsMember struct { Item Item } Now for the same, Item object, the json.Marshal function returns two different strings for the `Item` object. If you run the playground url, you will find that: {"Items":[{"SD":"2009-11-10T23:00"}]} {"Item":{"SD":"2009-11-10T23:00:00Z"}} are two different outputs (notice the "seconds" and the "Z" in the second line). I expected both the lines to print the same output for "SD" as the same object is re-used for them both. Now, should I define MarshalJson and UnmarshalJSON function for the []Item too (after making it a custom struct) ? Or is this a bug, or do I misunderstand anything ? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
