// Copyright 2016 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package json_test import ( "fmt" "log" "strings" "github.com/goccy/go-json" ) type Animal int const ( Unknown Animal = iota Gopher Zebra ) func (a *Animal) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error { var s string if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &s); err != nil { return err } switch strings.ToLower(s) { default: *a = Unknown case "gopher": *a = Gopher case "zebra": *a = Zebra } return nil } func (a Animal) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) { var s string switch a { default: s = "unknown" case Gopher: s = "gopher" case Zebra: s = "zebra" } return json.Marshal(s) } func Example_customMarshalJSON() { blob := `["gopher","armadillo","zebra","unknown","gopher","bee","gopher","zebra"]` var zoo []Animal if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(blob), &zoo); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } census := make(map[Animal]int) for _, animal := range zoo { census[animal] += 1 } fmt.Printf("Zoo Census:\n* Gophers: %d\n* Zebras: %d\n* Unknown: %d\n", census[Gopher], census[Zebra], census[Unknown]) // Output: // Zoo Census: // * Gophers: 3 // * Zebras: 2 // * Unknown: 3 }