I've tried this suggestion and although its certainly a bit more 
refactoring then I expected - the outcome looks to be exactly as you 
described here.

Thank you so much for the suggestion, take a bow!

- Greg


On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 12:15:34 PM UTC-7 Brian Candler wrote:

> No, it's even simpler than that:
>
> * The first call to decoder.Decode() will return the first object in the 
> stream.
> * The second call to decoder.Decode() will return the second object in the 
> stream.
> * And so on...
>
> By "object" I mean top-level object: everything between the opening "{" 
> and its matching closing "}", including all its nested values.  (Define a 
> struct which contains all the nested attributes, for it to be deserialized 
> into).
>
> If an io.Reader stream consists of a series of separate JSON objects - as 
> yours does - then you get one object at a time.  They don't have to be 
> separated by whitespace or newlines, but they can be.
>
> Don't think about seeking.  I don't know the internals of 
> decoder.Decode(), but I would expect that it reads in chunks from the 
> io.Reader.  This means it will likely overshoot the object boundaries, but 
> will buffer the excess and process it on the next call to Decode.
>

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