Update go-tips.md

Author: taowen

go-tips.md

@@ -6,3 +6,309 @@ title: Go JSON tips
 * TOC
 {:toc}
 
+There are times we are passed with a field of string type, but we wish it to be int. 
+If we know `json:",string"`, then it should be a easy. 
+Otherwise, it will take some serious time to do the conversion.
+
+Rerference: http://attilaolah.eu/2014/09/10/json-and-struct-composition-in-go/
+
+# Ad-hoc ignore some field
+
+```golang
+type User struct {
+    Email    string `json:"email"`
+    Password string `json:"password"`
+    // many more fields…
+}
+```
+
+to ignore `Password` field
+
+```golang
+json.Marshal(struct {
+    *User
+    Password bool `json:"password,omitempty"`
+}{
+    User: user,
+})
+```
+
+# Ad-hoc add extra field
+
+```golang
+type User struct {
+    Email    string `json:"email"`
+    Password string `json:"password"`
+    // many more fields…
+}
+```
+
+Ignore the `Password` field and add new `Token` field
+
+```golang
+json.Marshal(struct {
+    *User
+    Token    string `json:"token"`
+    Password bool `json:"password,omitempty"`
+}{
+    User: user,
+    Token: token,
+})
+```
+
+# Ad-hoc combine two structs
+
+```golang
+type BlogPost struct {
+    URL   string `json:"url"`
+    Title string `json:"title"`
+}
+
+type Analytics struct {
+    Visitors  int `json:"visitors"`
+    PageViews int `json:"page_views"`
+}
+
+json.Marshal(struct{
+    *BlogPost
+    *Analytics
+}{post, analytics})
+```
+
+# Ad-hoc split one json into two
+
+```golang
+json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{
+  "url": "attila@attilaolah.eu",
+  "title": "Attila's Blog",
+  "visitors": 6,
+  "page_views": 14
+}`), &struct {
+  *BlogPost
+  *Analytics
+}{&post, &analytics})
+```
+
+# Ad-hoc rename field
+
+```golang
+type CacheItem struct {
+    Key    string `json:"key"`
+    MaxAge int    `json:"cacheAge"`
+    Value  Value  `json:"cacheValue"`
+}
+
+json.Marshal(struct{
+    *CacheItem
+
+    // Omit bad keys
+    OmitMaxAge omit `json:"cacheAge,omitempty"`
+    OmitValue  omit `json:"cacheValue,omitempty"`
+
+    // Add nice keys
+    MaxAge int    `json:"max_age"`
+    Value  *Value `json:"value"`
+}{
+    CacheItem: item,
+
+    // Set the int by value:
+    MaxAge: item.MaxAge,
+
+    // Set the nested struct by reference, avoid making a copy:
+    Value: &item.Value,
+})
+```
+
+# Pass numbers as string
+
+```golang
+type TestObject struct {
+	Field1 int    `json:",string"`
+}
+```
+
+The corresponding json should be `{"Field1": "100"}`
+
+For `{"Field1": 100}`, there will be error
+
+# String/number fuzzy conversion
+
+If you are using jsoniter, enable fuzzy decoders can make life easier working with PHP.
+
+```golang
+import "github.com/json-iterator/go/extra"
+
+extra.RegisterFuzzyDecoders()
+```
+
+Then, no matter the input is string or number, or the output is number or string, jsoniter will convert it for you. For example:
+
+```golang
+var val string
+jsoniter.UnmarshalFromString(`100`, &val)
+```
+
+And
+
+```golang
+var val float32
+jsoniter.UnmarshalFromString(`"1.23"`, &val)
+```
+
+# [] as object
+
+Another heart breaking "feature" of PHP is that, when array is empty, it is encoded as `[]` instead of `{}`.
+
+If you are using jsoniter, enable fuzzy decoders will also fix this.
+
+```golang
+import "github.com/json-iterator/go/extra"
+
+extra.RegisterFuzzyDecoders()
+```
+
+Then we can deal with `[]`
+
+```golang
+var val map[string]interface{}
+jsoniter.UnmarshalFromString(`[]`, &val)
+```
+
+# Customize time.Time with MarshalJSON
+
+The defeault implementation will encode time.Time as string. If we want to represent time in other format, we have to define a new type
+for time.Time, with MarshalJSON.
+
+```golang
+type timeImplementedMarshaler time.Time
+
+func (obj timeImplementedMarshaler) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	seconds := time.Time(obj).Unix()
+	return []byte(strconv.FormatInt(seconds, 10)), nil
+}
+```
+
+Marshal will invoke MarshalJSON on types defined them.
+
+```golang
+type TestObject struct {
+	Field timeImplementedMarshaler
+}
+should := require.New(t)
+val := timeImplementedMarshaler(time.Unix(123, 0))
+obj := TestObject{val}
+bytes, err := jsoniter.Marshal(obj)
+should.Nil(err)
+should.Equal(`{"Field":123}`, string(bytes))
+```
+
+# Use RegisterTypeEncoder to customize time.Time
+
+Unlike the standard library, jsoniter allow you to customize types defined by other guys. For example, we can use epoch int64 to encode a time.Time.
+
+```golang
+import "github.com/json-iterator/go/extra"
+
+extra.RegisterTimeAsInt64Codec(time.Microsecond)
+output, err := jsoniter.Marshal(time.Unix(1, 1002))
+should.Equal("1000001", string(output))
+```
+
+If you want to do it yourself, reference `RegisterTimeAsInt64Codec` for more information.
+
+# Non string key map
+
+Although JSON standard requires the key of map to be string, golang support more types as long as they defined MarshalText(). For example:
+
+```golang
+f, _, _ := big.ParseFloat("1", 10, 64, big.ToZero)
+val := map[*big.Float]string{f: "2"}
+str, err := MarshalToString(val)
+should.Equal(`{"1":"2"}`, str)
+```
+
+Given `big.Float` is a type with MarshalText()
+
+# Use json.RawMessage
+
+Some part of JSON might be lacking a uniform schema, we can keep the original JSON as it is.
+
+```golang
+type TestObject struct {
+	Field1 string
+	Field2 json.RawMessage
+}
+var data TestObject
+json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"field1": "hello", "field2": [1,2,3]}`), &data)
+should.Equal(` [1,2,3]`, string(data.Field2))
+```
+
+# Use json.Number
+
+By default, number decoded into interface{} will be of type float64. If the input is large, the precision loss might be a problem.
+So we can `UseNumber()` to represent number as `json.Number`.
+
+```golang
+decoder1 := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBufferString(`123`))
+decoder1.UseNumber()
+var obj1 interface{}
+decoder1.Decode(&obj1)
+should.Equal(json.Number("123"), obj1)
+```
+
+jsoniter 支持标准库的这个用法。同时，扩展了行为使得 Unmarshal 也可以支持 UseNumber 了。
+
+```golang
+json := Config{UseNumber:true}.Froze()
+var obj interface{}
+json.UnmarshalFromString("123", &obj)
+should.Equal(json.Number("123"), obj)
+```
+
+# 统一更改字段的命名风格
+
+经常 JSON 里的字段名 Go 里的字段名是不一样的。我们可以用 field tag 来修改。
+
+```golang
+output, err := jsoniter.Marshal(struct {
+	UserName      string `json:"user_name"`
+	FirstLanguage string `json:"first_language"`
+}{
+	UserName:      "taowen",
+	FirstLanguage: "Chinese",
+})
+should.Equal(`{"user_name":"taowen","first_language":"Chinese"}`, string(output))
+```
+
+但是一个个字段来设置，太麻烦了。如果使用 jsoniter，我们可以统一设置命名风格。
+
+```golang
+import "github.com/json-iterator/go/extra"
+
+extra.SetNamingStrategy(LowerCaseWithUnderscores)
+output, err := jsoniter.Marshal(struct {
+	UserName      string
+	FirstLanguage string
+}{
+	UserName:      "taowen",
+	FirstLanguage: "Chinese",
+})
+should.Nil(err)
+should.Equal(`{"user_name":"taowen","first_language":"Chinese"}`, string(output))
+```
+
+# 使用私有的字段
+
+Go 的标准库只支持 public 的 field。jsoniter 额外支持了 private 的 field。需要使用 `SupportPrivateFields()` 来开启开关。
+
+```golang
+import "github.com/json-iterator/go/extra"
+
+extra.SupportPrivateFields()
+type TestObject struct {
+	field1 string
+}
+obj := TestObject{}
+jsoniter.UnmarshalFromString(`{"field1":"Hello"}`, &obj)
+should.Equal("Hello", obj.field1)
+```