Creating a new slice from an array of objects golang and group - go

Question

I have an array of objects that I would like to use to create a new slice while grouping a field for objects with the same id(the id, in this case, the id is pay_method_id) into an array of objects. i.e I want to group all users with a particular payment method
sample input
[{
"user_id": 1,
"pay_method_id": 1
}
{
"user_id": 2,
"pay_method_id": 2
}
{
"user_id": 4,
"pay_method_id": 1
}
{
"user_id": 3,
"pay_method_id": 2
}]
expected output
[
{"pay_method_id" : "2",
"users": [{"user_id": 2}, {"user_id": 3}]
}
{
"pay_method_id" : "1",
"users": [{"user_id": 4}, {"user_id": 1}]
}
]
Struct representing input
type paymenthodUsers struct{
PayMethodID int
UserID int
}
Struct for the output
type paymentMethodGrouped struct{
PayMethodID int
Users []user
}
type user struct{
UserID int
}
How do I generate the expected output above in golang?

Answer 1

package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
)
type paymenthodUsers struct {
PayMethodID int `json:"pay_method_id"`
UserID int `json:"user_id"`
}
type paymentMethodGrouped struct {
PayMethodID int `json:"pay_method_id"`
Users []user `json:"users"`
}
type user struct {
UserID int `json:"user_id"`
}
func main() {
_json := `[{
"user_id": 1,
"pay_method_id": 1
},
{
"user_id": 2,
"pay_method_id": 2
},
{
"user_id": 4,
"pay_method_id": 1
},
{
"user_id": 3,
"pay_method_id": 2
}]`
var paymentmethods []paymenthodUsers
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(_json), &paymentmethods)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Original input : %+v\n", paymentmethods)
groups := make(map[int][]user)
for _, pm := range paymentmethods {
if _, found := groups[pm.PayMethodID]; !found {
groups[pm.PayMethodID] = []user{}
}
groups[pm.PayMethodID] = append(groups[pm.PayMethodID], user{pm.UserID})
}
paymentGroups := []paymentMethodGrouped{}
for k, v := range groups {
paymentGroups = append(paymentGroups, paymentMethodGrouped{k, v})
}
data, err := json.Marshal(paymentGroups)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Grouped: %s", string(data))
}
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