TL;DRuse this A LITTLE BIT like the pandas library but for map[string]interface{} to perform basic data extraction

package mainimport ("encoding/json""log")var randomRubbishJSON = `{"_id": "617c120ab7a3fa5dd968346d","index": 0,"guid": "f3a4d826-30d6-4811-ba08-cda75b221f2b","isActive": true,"balance": "$1,241.70","picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32","age": 37,"eyeColor": "brown","name": "Susie Noble","gender": "female","company": "ZILLA","email": "susienoble@zilla.com","phone": "+1 (925) 507-2761","address": "266 Legion Street, Cressey, Illinois, 8982","about": "Aliquip ut veniam mollit duis non minim ad amet est ex id fugiat consequat. Amet labore nulla esse adipisicing velit fugiat aute fugiat in Lorem aliquip et exercitation. Proident laborum aliqua laborum esse Lorem minim. Velit do aute cillum laborum sit excepteur minim fugiat cillum laborum ex enim. Consequat minim nisi adipisicing eu deserunt esse id id anim esse consequat sunt cillum deserunt. Sit commodo aute adipisicing irure nulla in aliquip pariatur eiusmod consectetur velit. Ea anim nulla cillum eu fugiat.\r\n","registered": "2017-08-29T12:01:21 -01:00","latitude": -39.228822,"longitude": 136.128045,"tags": [  "consequat",  "magna",  "exercitation",  "eu",  "minim",  "duis",  "qui"],"friends": [  {"id": 0,"name": "Diane Martinez"  },  {"id": 1,"name": "Keller Schneider"  },  {"id": 2,"name": "Imogene Kemp"  }],"greeting": "Hello, Susie Noble! You have 7 unread messages.","favoriteFruit": "strawberry"  }`

func main() {exampleInput := make(map[string]interface{})err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(randomRubbishJSON), &exampleInput)if err != nil {log.Println(err)return}d := Decoder{}d.Decode(exampleInput)d.Print()}

what is output of d.Print() ?

Name: rootRoot: field: [phone greeting latitude _id balance email longitude favoriteFruit age about registered name gender company guid isActive picture index eyeColor address]array: [tags]sub: [friends]

so now let's do something useful:

func main() {exampleInput := make(map[string]interface{})err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(randomRubbishJSON), &exampleInput)if err != nil {log.Println(err)return}root := Decoder{}root.Ingest(exampleInput)friends := root.Get("friends")for i := range friends {fmt.Printf("%s,%s,%s,%s\n", root.Field("name"), friends[i].Name, friends[i].Field("id"), friends[i].Field("name"))}}output:Susie Noble,friends,0,Diane MartinezSusie Noble,friends,1,Keller SchneiderSusie Noble,friends,2,Imogene Kemp

with this decoder you can basically create any CSV dataset you want with the right instructions,

todo:handle more typesmore testlinting & general refactoringCREATE A FRONT-END WEBAPP that leverages the fact that you don't need to curate structs for everything