Assigning FormValue to a struct

[Jaybill McCarthy]

Before I write something, (I've searched the docs and the mailing list and can't find what I'm looking for...) is there an easy way to do marshaling with straight FormValue(s) and a struct the way you'd do with JSON?

So instead of doing this:

type User struct {

FullName string

Username string

}

u := User {FullName: r.FormValue("full_name"), Username: r.FormValue("username")}

I want to do something like this:

type User struct {

FullName string

Username string

}

u := User{}

err = form.Unmarshal(r,u)

Is there anything that does something along this line?

[Peter]

I imagine the reflect package is what you're looking for. The Request.Form is a map[string][]string, so you could loop over the keys, testing if u has a field with the same name as the key and setting the values if so. That's pretty much how the JSON unmarshaller does it, but since it takes a []byte I'm not sure if you can reuse any of it.

[Jaybill McCarthy]

Yesssss.....that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Peter Russell <retep....@ymail.com> wrote:

Is there anything that does something along this line?

http://go.pkgdoc.org/code.google.com/p/gorilla/schema