How to parse non standard time format from json

Question

lets say i have the following json

{
    name: \"John\",
    birth_date: \"1996-10-07\"
}

and i want to decode it into the following struct

Answer 1

If there are lots of struct and you just implement custom marshal und unmarshal functions, that's a lot of work to do so. You can use another lib instead，such as a json-iterator extension jsontime:

import "github.com/liamylian/jsontime"

var json = jsontime.ConfigWithCustomTimeFormat

type Book struct {
    Id        int           `json:"id"`
    UpdatedAt *time.Time    `json:"updated_at" time_format:"sql_date" time_utc:"true"`
    CreatedAt time.Time     `json:"created_at" time_format:"sql_datetime" time_location:"UTC"`
}