JSON decoded value is treated as float64 instead of int

Question

I have a json response from a api as map[message:Login Success. userid:1]

Server:

c.JSON(200, gin.H{"message": "Login Success.", "userid": 1})

Client:

var result map[string]interface{}
json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&result)

msg, ok := result["message"].(string)
if !ok {
    msg = "Something went wrong."
}
userID, ok := result["userid"].(int)
if !ok {
    userID = 0
}

But userID, ok := result["userid"].(int) always fails. I've even tried using:

switch v := x.(type) {
case nil:
    fmt.Println("x is nil")          
case int: 
    fmt.Println("x is", v)           
case bool, string:
    fmt.Println("x is bool or string")
default:
    fmt.Println("type unknown")      
}

And it just gave me unknown. Why is the integer not being taken as integer?

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It looks like its treating the value as float64.

Answer 1

Here you can find the explanation why you are getting float64 and not int:

Check doc for Decode

See the documentation for Unmarshal for details about the conversion of JSON into a Go value.

And there see

To unmarshal JSON into an interface value, Unmarshal stores one of these in the interface value:

float64, for JSON numbers