I'm a newbie in Golang.
I'm going to create a list of dictionaries that is resizable (this is not static) with append some dict
to the list
. Then I want to write it on a file, but I was confused.
I want something like this:
[
{"port": 161, "timeout": 1, "sleep_time": 5, "metrics": [
{"tag_name": "output_current", "id": 3},
{"tag_name": "input_voltage", "id": 2}
]},
{"port": 161, "timeout": 1, "sleep_time": 4, "metrics": [
{"tag_name": "destructor", "id": 10}
]}
]
[UPDATE]:
What is the .append()
Python equivalent in Go language like the following code snippet?
list_ = []
dict_ = {"key": val}
list_.append(dict_)
I've found the answer to this section ([UPDATE]) by borrowing from this answer:
type Dictionary map[string]interface{}
data := []Dictionary{}
dict1 := Dictionary{"key": 1}
dict2 := Dictionary{"key": 2}
data = append(data, dict1, dict2)
If you need the data to be stored in a slice of dictionary/key-value-based format, then using the combination of slice and map[string]interface{}
is enough.
In this example below, I created a new type called Dictionary
, to avoid writing too many map[string]interface{}
syntax on composite literals.
type Dictionary map[string]interface{}
data := []Dictionary{
{
"metrics": []Dictionary{
{ "tag_name": "output_current", "id": 3 },
{ "tag_name": "input_voltage", "id": 2 },
},
"port": 161,
"timeout": 1,
"sleep_time": 5,
},
{
"metrics": []Dictionary{
{ "tag_name": "destructor", "id": 10 },
},
"port": 161,
"timeout": 1,
"sleep_time": 4,
},
}
However if your data structure is fixed, then I suggest to use a struct instead map
. Below is an another example as above, using same dataset but leveraging struct instead of map
:
type Metric struct {
TagName string `json:"tag_name"`
ID int `json:"id"`
}
type Data struct {
Port int `json:"port"`
Timeout int `json:"timeout"`
SleepTime int `json:"sleep_time"`
Metrics []Metric `json:"metrics"`
}
data := []Data{
Data{
Port: 161,
Timeout: 1,
SleepTime: 5,
Metrics: []Metric{
Metric{TagName: "output_current", ID: 3},
Metric{TagName: "input_voltage", ID: 2},
},
},
Data{
Port: 161,
Timeout: 1,
SleepTime: 4,
Metrics: []Metric{
Metric{TagName: "destructor", ID: 10},
},
},
}
To be able to write the data
in JSON file, the particular data
needs to be converted into JSON string first. Use json.Marshal()
to do the conversion from map
data (or struct object data) into JSON string format (in []byte
type).
buf, err := json.Marshal(data)
if err !=nil {
panic(err)
}
err = ioutil.WriteFile("fileame.json", buf, 0644)
if err !=nil {
panic(err)
}
Then use ioutil.WriteFile()
to write it into file.
If you somehow need to print the JSON data as a string, then cast the buf
into string
type.
jsonString := string(buf)
fmt.Println(jsonString)
Statements above will generate output below:
[{"port":161,"timeout":1,"sleep_time":5,"metrics":[{"tag_name":"output_current","id":"3"},{"tag_name":"input_voltage","id":"2"}]},{"port":161,"timeout":1,"sleep_time":4,"metrics":[{"tag_name":"destructor","id":"10"}]}]
So the types you are looking for are:
dict => map
list => slice
A simple example of a map looks like:
m:=map[string]int{
"a": 1,
"b": 2,
}
A simple example of a slice looks like:
var s []int
s = append(s, 1)
s = append(s, 2, 3)
So to put that together for your type:
[]map[string]interface{}{
{
"port": 161,
"timeout": 1,
"sleep_time": 5,
"metrics": []map[string]interface{}{
{"tag_name": "output_current", "id": "3"},
{"tag_name": "input_voltage", "id": "2"},
},
},
{
"port": 161,
"timeout": 1,
"sleep_time": 4,
"metrics": []map[string]interface{}{
{"tag_name": "destructor", "id": "10"},
},
},
}
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