Removing fields from struct or hiding them in JSON Response

Question

I\'ve created an API in Go that, upon being called, performs a query, creates an instance of a struct, and then encodes that struct as JSON before sending back to the caller

Answer 1

I also faced this problem, at first I just wanted to specialize the responses in my http handler. My first approach was creating a package that copies the information of a struct to another struct and then marshal that second struct. I did that package using reflection, so, never liked that approach and also I wasn't dynamically.

So I decided to modify the encoding/json package to do this. The functions Marshal, MarshalIndent and (Encoder) Encode additionally receives a

type F map[string]F

I wanted to simulate a JSON of the fields that are needed to marshal, so it only marshals the fields that are in the map.

https://github.com/JuanTorr/jsont

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/JuanTorr/jsont"
)

type SearchResult struct {
    Date        string      `json:"date"`
    IdCompany   int         `json:"idCompany"`
    Company     string      `json:"company"`
    IdIndustry  interface{} `json:"idIndustry"`
    Industry    string      `json:"industry"`
    IdContinent interface{} `json:"idContinent"`
    Continent   string      `json:"continent"`
    IdCountry   interface{} `json:"idCountry"`
    Country     string      `json:"country"`
    IdState     interface{} `json:"idState"`
    State       string      `json:"state"`
    IdCity      interface{} `json:"idCity"`
    City        string      `json:"city"`
} //SearchResult

type SearchResults struct {
    NumberResults int            `json:"numberResults"`
    Results       []SearchResult `json:"results"`
} //type SearchResults
func main() {
    msg := SearchResults{
        NumberResults: 2,
        Results: []SearchResult{
            {
                Date:        "12-12-12",
                IdCompany:   1,
                Company:     "alfa",
                IdIndustry:  1,
                Industry:    "IT",
                IdContinent: 1,
                Continent:   "america",
                IdCountry:   1,
                Country:     "México",
                IdState:     1,
                State:       "CDMX",
                IdCity:      1,
                City:        "Atz",
            },
            {
                Date:        "12-12-12",
                IdCompany:   2,
                Company:     "beta",
                IdIndustry:  1,
                Industry:    "IT",
                IdContinent: 1,
                Continent:   "america",
                IdCountry:   2,
                Country:     "USA",
                IdState:     2,
                State:       "TX",
                IdCity:      2,
                City:        "XYZ",
            },
        },
    }
    fmt.Println(msg)
    http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

        //{"numberResults":2,"results":[{"date":"12-12-12","idCompany":1,"idIndustry":1,"country":"México"},{"date":"12-12-12","idCompany":2,"idIndustry":1,"country":"USA"}]}
        err := jsont.NewEncoder(w).Encode(msg, jsont.F{
            "numberResults": nil,
            "results": jsont.F{
                "date":       nil,
                "idCompany":  nil,
                "idIndustry": nil,
                "country":    nil,
            },
        })
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
    })

    http.ListenAndServe(":3009", nil)
}