Hi

I am working on a Coupon form in which I have some optional fields. 

*Introduction:*

All the form field values are received as JSON and mapped into a Golang 
structure. In the structure, I have added an "omitempty" flag with every 
field. So only those form values are mapped which have some appropriate 
value, rest of the values like 0, " ", false are ignored by the structure.

Here is the Golang structure

type Coupon struct {
    Id               int    `json:"id,omitempty" bson:"_id,omitempty"`
    Name             string `json:"name,omitempty" bson:"name,omitempty"`
    Code             string `json:"code,omitempty" bson:"code,omitempty"`
    Description      string `json:"description,omitempty" 
bson:"description,omitempty"`
    Status           bool   `json:"status" bson:"status"`
    MaxUsageLimit    int    `json:"max_usage_limit,omitempty" 
bson:"max_usage_limit,omitempty"`
    SingleUsePerUser bool   `json:"single_use_per_user,omitempty" 
bson:"single_use_per_user,omitempty"`}

*Problem:*

   1. 
   
   When I save this form for the very first time, the form values that are 
   appropriate are saved into the Mongodb.
   2. 
   
   Now I want to update that form and suppose there is a check box, which 
   was checked at the time of saving data. While updating form, the checkbox 
   is unchecked and form is submitted to save. Now as I have applied 
   "omitempty" flag in the structure, so its not mapping the empty value to 
   the checkbox field. Since the value is not mapped into the structure, its 
   not getting saved into the Database. 
   3. 
   
   When a user edits the form for the second time, it sees the same check 
   box as checked. (But practically, the value should be updated to the DB and 
   the check box should be displayed as unchecked.)
   4. 
   
   I am using the same form data (in JSON format) in a REST API. In API, 
   while updating form data, if I mention only those values which are required 
   and don't pass the values which I don't want to update, then MongoDB is 
   overriding the whole document with the provided required values(Even those 
   values are also being overridden which I don't want to update as well as 
   don't pass in the API).
   
*Requirement:*

In future, I want to expose the REST API, So I don't want this thing to be 
happened there. That is why I don't want to remove "omitempty" flag from 
the structure fields. 

Is there any way to save the empty form values or API data fields to the DB 
while using omitempty flag in the structure?

Thanks!

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