Convert to []byte Golang - go

Question

I have a use case where I have the code as below. I have a request coming in to hit the backend where I need to append data to a map. My question is how do I convert the below type to a []byte to unmarshal?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
type Example struct {
Category string `json:"category"`
Name string `json:"name"`
}
Incoming Postman request json looks like this:
[{"Category":"TestCategory", "Name":"Sample1"}]
but after doing
jsonString Type: []Example
if err := gc.ShouldBindJSON(&jsonString) it looks like [{TestCategory Sample1}] ; how do I convert this to a []byte?
for _, req := range blob{
var jsonString Example
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonString), &blob); err != nil { //this does not work
logger.Fatal(err)
}
//I am checking if a key-value is present and appending it to the map
dict := make(map[string][]Example)
dict[req.Category] = append(dict[req.Category], req)
fmt.Println(dict)
if value, ok := dict["TestCategory"]; ok {
fmt.Printf("Found %d\n", value)
} else {
fmt.Println("not found")
}
}
//I was able to test the above logic by declaring the jsonString as a const and it works

Answer 1

There are two directions in which you can move the data:
from JSON to a Go data structure
// This is your payload coming from the request.
jsonStr := `[{"Category":"TestCategory", "Name":"Sample1"}]`
// This is the Go struct that will hold the unmarshalled data.
var examples []Example
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonStr), &examples)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println("Examples:", examples) // prints "Examples: [{TestCategory Sample1}]"
from a Go data structure to JSON (either string or []byte)
exampleBytes, err := json.Marshal(examples)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println("Example bytes:", string(exampleBytes)) // prints "Example bytes: [{"category":"TestCategory","name":"Sample1"}]"
You should check out "Go by Example" if you haven't already: https://gobyexample.com/json
Looking at your code:
You are looping on blob but instead of using the req you are trying to unmarshal onto the entire blob each time. I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve there but nothing good can come out of changing a struct you're looping over from within the loop.
The request JSON you are listing is an array of JSON objects. You are trying to unmarshal that into a single Example struct. That won't work, you need an array of those.