Error while parsing valid json

[sbres]

First of all, thank you for this tool it is very helpful.

I was trying to encode this value:

[{"holder1": {"type1": [["value1", "value2"], ["value1", "value2"]]}}]

And it resulted in this error:

5:15: expected ';', found '[' (and 1 more errors)

The smallest structure that still shows the error is the following.

[{"holder1": {"type1": [["value"]]}}]

[mholt]

Thanks for reducing down the problem! I just pasted in your structure and it works just fine for me:

type AutoGenerated []struct {
    Holder1 struct {
        Type1 [][]string `json:"type1"`
    } `json:"holder1"`
}

[sbres]

I just tried it again.

It does work when "Inline type definitions" is set, but not when it's not set.

[mholt]

Ah, you're right. @mahdi-hosseini any idea what might be causing this?

[mholt]

Oh, and to be clear, I suspect this might be the output of gofmt, i.e. the Go code we generate is not syntactically valid.

[mike-hosseini]

Ah, you're right. @mahdi-hosseini any idea what might be causing this?

Hi Matt, I will look into it this weekend!

[mike-hosseini]

The issue does not seem to be caused by gofmt but rather the output of jsonToGo() is invalid Go struct. There is an extraneous Type1 in the output when the function is called with flatten = true, see here: https://play.golang.org/p/tpFHAOmFQk8

So this is probably a bug. I may be able to look into it further when I have the time.

[mholt]

Ah, nice catch. Thanks for looking into it!

[aneeskA]

I encountered the same problem. Just wondering if there is a work around for this issue.

Excellent tool, by the way.

[lhlyu]

@sbres @aneeskA You can try this online tool

[sbres]

I've done a check and the website is able to convert the JSON to a go struct