Fiber: 🤔 How to use BodyParser with multiple structs?

[phtdacosta]

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[UJPrasad]

Create a new struct that holds your incoming JSON format with all those structs used?

Example:

type User struct {
  ...
}

...

type IncomingData struct {
  User
  Address
  Cart
}
data := IncomingData{}
err := c.BodyParser(&data)

[phtdacosta]

So it means that BodyParser can only dump the body into one and just one struct, then? I need to decompose it manually, right?

[thomasvvugt]

Hi @phtdacosta ,
Could you explain what exactly you mean by multiple structs a little further?
Do you mean nested structs, or different structs next to each other from a JSON dictionary?

[UJPrasad]

@phtdacosta

You can even unmarshal the contents into different structs using pointers in go?

type User struct {
    Name string `json:"name"`
        ...
}

...

type IncomingData struct {
    *User
    Cart
    AddressArr []Address `json:"addresses"`
}

user := &User{}
data := IncomingData{
    User: user,
}

err := ctx.BodyParser(&data)

[Fenny]

I'm closing this issue since the question has been answered.