Consume a nested array inside JSON request in Go - go

Question

How do I go about consuming the following json post in Go?
{
"notificationType": "email",
"client": "The CLient",
"content": "Hellow World",
"recipients": [
{
"address": "email1#example.com"
},
{
"address": "email2#example.com"
}
]
}
I've managed to get the string types but I really don't know enough about Go to deal with the recipients array.
My code looks like this:
package handlers
import (
"net/http"
"encoding/json"
"notificationservice/src/validation"
"io/ioutil"
"fmt"
)
func EmailHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
b, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
defer r.Body.Close()
if err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), 500)
return
}
var postData validation.EmailValidator
err = json.Unmarshal(b, &postData)
if err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), 500)
return
}
fmt.Println(postData.Client)
fmt.Println(postData.Content)
}
My struct:
package validation
import "fmt"
type EmailValidator struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Content string `json:"content"`
//Recipients []string `json:"recipients"`
}
func (validator * EmailValidator) ValidateEmail() (bool) {
var required = []string {validator.Client, validator.Content, validator.Stuff}
for _, param := range required {
fmt.Println(param)
}
return true;
}
I've tried setting Recipients to []string and [][]string but I really don't know what I'm doing.
In PHP I would use the var_dump command to print out the entire object and debug step by step from there, but Go doesn't appear to have that functionality.

Answer 1

You can try something like this:
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
)
type Email struct {
Adress string `json:"address"`
}
type EmailValidator struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Content string `json:"content"`
Recipients []Email `json:"recipients"`
}
func main() {
j := `{
"notificationType": "email",
"client": "The CLient",
"content": "Hellow World",
"recipients": [
{
"address": "email1#example.com"
},
{
"address": "email2#example.com"
}
]
}`
result := EmailValidator{}
json.Unmarshal([]byte(j), &result)
fmt.Printf("%+v", result) // something like var_dump in PHP
}

Answer 2

You need an array of "things with an address":
type EmailValidator struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Content string `json:"content"`
Recipients []Recipient `json:"recipients"`
}
type Recipient struct {
Address string `json:"address"`
}

Answer 3

You can nest objects, and Unmarshal will handle the entire tree for you.
type Recipient struct {
Address string `json:"address"`
}
type EmailValidator struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Content string `json:"content"`
Recipients []Recipient `json:"recipients"`
}
The rest of your code looks good.