Changing value of field in a go struct - go

Question

I'm making an http request in golang to an external api. It gives a general response of {"error":[]string, "result":changing interface{}}. depending on the function that is making the request, the Result field changes. Since I know the structure of the Result field for each function I run, I want to be able to change the value of Result before unmarshalling to json. I've tried to do this with the following code:
func GetAssets(output *Resp, resultType interface{}) error {
return publicRequest("/Assets", output, resultType)
}
func publicRequest(endPoint string, output *Resp, resultType interface{}) error {
url := Rest_url + Pub_rest_url + endPoint //"https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Assets in this case
resp, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
output.Result = resultType
return json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&output)
}
Here is how it's being ran in main
type Resp struct {
Error []string `json:"error"`
Result interface{} `json:"result"`
}
type AssetInfo struct {
Aclass string `json:"aclass"`
Altname string `json:"altname"`
Decimals int `json:"decimals"`
Display int `json:"display_decimals"`
}
func main() {
var result map[string]AssetInfo
jsonData := Resp{}
rest_api_client.GetAssets(&jsonData, result)
fmt.Println(jsonData)
}
The issue is that it doesn't unmarshal correctly. A map is created for each asset, but the data contained inside of each asset is also being stored inside of a map. I'm not sure if I explained this well, but here is the current response after unmarshalling to understand what I mean.
Here is the data type of Resp.Result: map[string]interface {}
{[] map[1INCH:map[aclass:currency altname:1INCH decimals:10 display_decimals:5] AAVE:map[aclass:currency altname:AAVE decimals:10 display_decimals:5] ACA:map[aclass:currency altname:ACA decimals:10 display_decimals:5] ADA:map[aclass:currency altname:ADA decimals:8 display_decimals:6]...}
The response type I'm looking for is map[string]AssetInfo. Hopefully it could be unmarshalled like this:
{[] map[1INCH:{currency 1INCH 10 5} AAVE:{currency AAVE 10 5} ACA:{currency ACA 10 5} ADA:{currency ADA 8 6} ADA.S:{currency ADA.S 8 6}...}
Any help? I'd rather keep the Resp struct as generic as possible and just change the value of the Result field (if this is even possible to do correctly) since I plan to have multiple functions that call different endpoints of the api, and they'll all have the same underlying response type of the Resp struct with different Result types

Answer 1

You can view a working example in the following repo:
https://github.com/alessiosavi/GoArbitrage/blob/e107af466852b1ed30c2413eb4401595f7412b4f/markets/kraken/kraken.go
Basically, I've defined the following structure:
type Tickers struct {
Error []interface{} `json:"error"`
Result map[string]Ticker `json:"result"`
}
type Ticker struct {
Aclass string `json:"aclass"`
Altname string `json:"altname"`
Decimals int `json:"decimals"`
DisplayDecimals int `json:"display_decimals"`
}
Than I execute the request in the following way:
const KRAKEN_TICKERS_URL string = `https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Assets`
type Kraken struct {
PairsNames []string `json:"pairs_name"`
Pairs map[string]datastructure.KrakenPair `json:"pairs"`
OrderBook map[string]datastructure.KrakenOrderBook `json:"orderbook"`
MakerFee float64 `json:"maker_fee"`
TakerFees float64 `json:"taker_fee"`
// FeePercent is delegated to save if the fee is in percent or in coin
FeePercent bool `json:"fee_percent"`
Tickers []string
}
// Init is delegated to initialize the maps for the kraken
func (k *Kraken) Init() {
k.Pairs = make(map[string]datastructure.KrakenPair)
k.OrderBook = make(map[string]datastructure.KrakenOrderBook)
k.SetFees()
}
// SetFees is delegated to initialize the fee type/amount for the given market
func (k *Kraken) SetFees() {
k.MakerFee = 0.16
k.TakerFees = 0.26
k.FeePercent = true
}
func (k *Kraken) GetTickers() error {
res := datastructure.Tickers{}
var err error
var request req.Request
var data []byte
var tickers []string
resp := request.SendRequest(KRAKEN_TICKERS_URL, "GET", nil, nil, false, 10*time.Second)
if resp.Error != nil {
zap.S().Debugw("Error during http request. Err: " + resp.Error.Error())
return resp.Error
}
if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
zap.S().Warnw("Received a non 200 status code: " + strconv.Itoa(resp.StatusCode))
return errors.New("NON_200_STATUS_CODE")
}
data = resp.Body
if err = json.Unmarshal(data, &res); err != nil {
zap.S().Warn("ERROR! :" + err.Error())
return err
}
zap.S().Infof("Data: %v", res.Result)
tickers = make([]string, len(res.Result))
i := 0
for key := range res.Result {
tickers[i] = res.Result[key].Altname
i++
}
k.Tickers = tickers
return nil
}