How to parse a JSON request body in Go - Alex Edwards

Let's say that you're building a JSON API with Go. And in some of the handlers — probably as part of a POST or PUT request — you want to read a JSON object from the request body and assign it to a struct in your code. After a bit of research, there's a good chance that you'll end up with some code that looks similar to the personCreate handler here: // File: main.go package main import ( "encoding