Dumping MySQL tables to JSON with Golang

Question

Was putting together a quick dumper for MySQL to JSON in Go. However I find that everything that I retrieve from the database is a []byte array. Thus instead of n

Answer 1

I also needed to dump database tables to json and here is how I achieved: (different than another answer in this topic, everything is not string, thanks to this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17885636/4124416, I could get integer fields correctly)

func getJSON(sqlString string) (string, error) {
    rows, err := db.Query(sqlString)
    if err != nil {
        return "", err
    }
    defer rows.Close()
    columns, err := rows.Columns()
    if err != nil {
        return "", err
    }
    count := len(columns)
    tableData := make([]map[string]interface{}, 0)
    values := make([]interface{}, count)
    valuePtrs := make([]interface{}, count)
    for rows.Next() {
        for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
          valuePtrs[i] = &values[i]
        }
        rows.Scan(valuePtrs...)
        entry := make(map[string]interface{})
        for i, col := range columns {
            var v interface{}
            val := values[i]
            b, ok := val.([]byte)
            if ok {
                v = string(b)
            } else {
                v = val
            }
            entry[col] = v
        }
        tableData = append(tableData, entry)
    }
    jsonData, err := json.Marshal(tableData)
    if err != nil {
        return "", err
    }
    fmt.Println(string(jsonData))
    return string(jsonData), nil 
}

Here is a sample output:

[{"ID":0,"Text":"Zero"},{"ID":1,"Text":"One"},{"ID":2,"Text":"Two"}]