Handling JSON Post Request in Go

Question

So I have the following, which seems incredibly hacky, and I've been thinking to myself that Go has better designed libraries than this, but I can't find an example of Go handling a POST request of JSON data. They are all form POSTs.

Here is an example request: curl -X POST -d "{\"test\": \"that\"}" http://localhost:8082/test

And here is the code, with the logs embedded:

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

type test_struct struct {
    Test string
}

func test(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    req.ParseForm()
    log.Println(req.Form)
    //LOG: map[{"test": "that"}:[]]
    var t test_struct
    for key, _ := range req.Form {
        log.Println(key)
        //LOG: {"test": "that"}
        err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(key), &t)
        if err != nil {
            log.Println(err.Error())
        }
    }
    log.Println(t.Test)
    //LOG: that
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/test", test)
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8082", nil))
}

There's got to be a better way, right? I'm just stumped in finding what the best practice could be.

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Answer 1

Please use json.Decoder instead of json.Unmarshal.

func test(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    decoder := json.NewDecoder(req.Body)
    var t test_struct
    err := decoder.Decode(&t)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(t.Test)
}