Golang graphql iterate over map with submap - arrays

Question

Recently I was trying to an implementation of a Mutation Request using GoLang as a Graphql Server, Basically this is the query that i send: As you can see its an array of object that contains name and an array of strings
mutation{
CellTest(cells:[{name:"lero",child:["1","2"]},{name:"lero2",child:["12","22"]}]){
querybody
}
}
In my Go code I have a type object that is gonna set the values sent
type Cell struct {
name string `json:"name"`
child []string `json:"child"`
}
and a custom array that is gonna be []Cell
type Cells []*Cell
However when the request is received by GO I get this:
Note that this is the print of cellsInterface
[map[child:[1 2] name:lero] map[child:[12 22] name:lero2]]
How can i get each value and assign those in my Array Cells
something like this:
Cells[0] = {name="first",child={"1","2"}}
Cells[1] = {name="second",child={"hello","good"}}
this is my current attempt:
var resolvedCells Cells
cellsInterface := params.Args["cells"].([]interface{})
cellsByte, err := json.Marshal(cellsInterface)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("marshal the input json", err)
return resolvedCells, err
}
if err := json.Unmarshal(cellsByte, &resolvedCells); err != nil {
fmt.Println("unmarshal the input json to Data.Cells", err)
return resolvedCells, err
}
for cell := range resolvedCells {
fmt.Println(cellsInterface[cell].([]interface{}))
}
However this only split the cells array into 0 and 1.

Answer 1

Range through the map values in the result and append those values to Cell slice. If you are getting an object from json. Then you can unmarshall the bytes into Cell.
The result when unmarshalling should be a slice of Cell struct as
var resolvedCells []Cell
if err := json.Unmarshal(cellsByte, &resolvedCells); err != nil {
fmt.Println("unmarshal the input json to Data.Cells", err)
}
fmt.Println(resolvedCells)
Working Code on Go playground
Or if you want to use pointers loop over the resolvedCell as
type Cells []*Cell
func main() {
var resolvedCells Cells
if err := json.Unmarshal(cellsByte, &resolvedCells); err != nil {
fmt.Println("unmarshal the input json to Data.Cells", err)
}
fmt.Println(*resolvedCells[1])
for _, value := range resolvedCells{
fmt.Println(value)
fmt.Printf("%+v",value.Child) // access child struct value of array
}
}
Playground example