Cannot retrieve "_id" value using mgo with golang

Question

This is my struct definition:

type Article struct {
    Id      bson.ObjectId `json:"id"        bson:"_id,omitempty"`
    Title   string        `json:"title"`
    Author  string        `json:"author"`
    Date    string        `json:"date"`
    Tags    string        `json:"tags"`
    Content string        `json:"content"`
    Status  string        `json:"status"`
}

This is the method I get my data from database:

func AllArticles() []Article {
    articles := []Article{}
    err := c_articles.Find(bson.M{}).All(&articles)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    return articles
}

This is one piece of object stored in database:

{ "_id" : ObjectId( "5281b83afbb7f35cb62d0834" ),
  "title" : "Hello1",
  "author" : "DYZ",
  "date" : "2013-11-10",
  "tags" : "abc",
  "content" : "This is another content.",
  "status" : "published" }

This is the printed result:

[{ObjectIdHex("") Hello1 DYZ 2013-11-10 abc This is another content. published}     {ObjectIdHex("") Hello2 DYZ 2013-11-14 abc This is the content. published}]

It seems that I can't get the real value of _id field, it's always "". What's the problem?

Answer 1

I've found the problem.

In the code:

Id      bson.ObjectId `json:"id"        bson:"_id,omitempty"`

between json: and bson:, I used a tab instead of space so the problem occurs. If I change this line of code to:

Id      bson.ObjectId `json:"id" bson:"_id,omitempty"`

With one space between json: and bson:, it turns out to work just fine.