Parsing json in go.

<p>I&#39;m trying to add a golang example in <a href="https://github.com/samayo/country-data" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samayo/country-data</a> or <a href="https://github.com/samayo/country-data/issues/20" rel="nofollow">this issues</a> I can&#39;t find much info on this. Mainly because I don&#39;t know anything about go. </p> <p>If anyone know, I appreciate the help. </p> <hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>sahne: <pre><p>You might want something like this</p> <pre><code>import ( &#34;io/ioutil&#34; &#34;encoding/json&#34; ) type MyData struct { Foo string `json:&#34;foo&#34;` Bar float64 `json:&#34;bar,omitempty&#34;` } func parseData(filename string) (&amp;MyData, error) { data := MyData{} content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename) if err != nil { return nil, err } if err := json.Unmarshal(content, &amp;data); err != nil { return nil, err } return &amp;data, nil } </code></pre></pre>dim13: <pre><p><a href="https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#example_Unmarshal" rel="nofollow">https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#example_Unmarshal</a></p></pre>iCupid: <pre><p>Yeah, I&#39;ve seen that. Is there any example that is simpler? Like shown in the link? Plus, this example is not even fetching it from a JSON file. That is not what I wanted to show.</p></pre>chrj: <pre><p>Open the file with <a href="https://godoc.org/os#Open" rel="nofollow"><code>os.Open</code></a>. This gives you an <a href="https://godoc.org/io#Reader" rel="nofollow"><code>io.Reader</code></a> compatible value that can be processed using <a href="https://godoc.org/encoding/json#NewDecoder" rel="nofollow"><code>json.NewDecoder</code></a>.</p></pre>dim13: <pre><p>You can use <a href="https://golang.org/pkg/io/ioutil/#ReadFile" rel="nofollow">ioutil.ReadFile</a> or method suggested by <a href="/u/chrj" rel="nofollow">chrj</a>.</p> <p>Anyway, I don&#39;t really see, why such example is mandatory. People who use Go know how to read a file and get json data out of it. ;)</p></pre>pafortin: <pre><p>From the data I see the project he referenced you cannot use a specific struct to unmarshall the data only a map.</p></pre>pafortin: <pre><p>See if this helps - <a href="https://play.golang.org/p/SmsritdOML" rel="nofollow">https://play.golang.org/p/SmsritdOML</a></p></pre>iCupid: <pre><p>I don&#39;t get it. Isn&#39;t there a way to require or import a json file in go? as in <code>require &#39;country-data.json&#39;</code> because in the example the json content is hard-coded.</p></pre>pafortin: <pre><p>You need to write code to load the data. search google &#34;golang read flle&#34; There are tons of examples.</p></pre>dim13: <pre><p>No, you cannot simply import json.</p></pre>