Golang sends json to multicast ip

Question

I am writing a Go piece to send json data in multicast udp:

func send(a string, messages chan interface{}) {
    addr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp", a)
    CheckError(err)
    c, err := net.DialUDP("udp", nil, addr)
    CheckError(err)
    for {
        msg := <-messages
        myjson, err := json.Marshal(msg)
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println("Error encoding JSON")
        return
        }
        //Write to bytes to multicast UDP
        c.Write([]byte(myjson))

        time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
    }
}

So my json is converted to an array of bytes to make it work. Here is my "receiver" func:

func serveMulticastUDP(a string, messages chan interface{}) {

    addr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp", a)
    CheckError(err)
    l, err := net.ListenMulticastUDP("udp", nil, addr)
    l.SetReadBuffer(maxDatagramSize)
    for {
        b := make([]byte, maxDatagramSize)
        n, src, err := l.ReadFromUDP(b)
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal("ReadFromUDP failed:", err)
        }
        s := string(b[:n])//here is my problem, I want s to be map[string]interface before sending in my channel
        messages<-s
        log.Println(s)
        log.Println(src)
        log.Println(n)
        //h(src, n, b)
    }
}

How to convert byte array to map [string] interface (json)?

Answer 1

In the code you used json.Marshal()to convert your value to JSON ( []byte) text .

Another direction ( []byte→ value) can be done with json.Unmarshal(). json.Unmarshal()expects a []byte, so you don't even need to convert it to string.

See this example:

data := []byte(`{"key1":"value1","key2":123}`)

var m map[string]interface{}
if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &m); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

fmt.Printf("%+v", m)

( Go Playground):

map[key1:value1 key2:123]

:

(json.Marshal()) - []byte, :

c.Write([]byte(myjson))

:

c.Write(myjson)

, , b[:n] json.Unmarshal(), 0 ( ), json!