package json import ( "bytes" "encoding/json" "fmt" "io" ) // DiscardUnknownField discards unknown fields from a decoder body. // This function is useful while deserializing a JSON body with additional // unknown information that should be discarded. func DiscardUnknownField(decoder *json.Decoder) error { // This deliberately does not share logic with CollectUnknownField, even // though it could, because if we were to delegate to that then we'd incur // extra allocations and general memory usage. v, err := decoder.Token() if err == io.EOF { return nil } if err != nil { return err } if _, ok := v.(json.Delim); ok { for decoder.More() { err = DiscardUnknownField(decoder) } endToken, err := decoder.Token() if err != nil { return err } if _, ok := endToken.(json.Delim); !ok { return fmt.Errorf("invalid JSON : expected json delimiter, found %T %v", endToken, endToken) } } return nil } // CollectUnknownField grabs the contents of unknown fields from the decoder body // and returns them as a byte slice. This is useful for skipping unknown fields without // completely discarding them. func CollectUnknownField(decoder *json.Decoder) ([]byte, error) { result, err := collectUnknownField(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } buff := bytes.NewBuffer(nil) encoder := json.NewEncoder(buff) if err := encoder.Encode(result); err != nil { return nil, err } return buff.Bytes(), nil } func collectUnknownField(decoder *json.Decoder) (interface{}, error) { // Grab the initial value. This could either be a concrete value like a string or a a // delimiter. token, err := decoder.Token() if err == io.EOF { return nil, nil } if err != nil { return nil, err } // If it's an array or object, we'll need to recurse. delim, ok := token.(json.Delim) if ok { var result interface{} if delim == '{' { result, err = collectUnknownObject(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } } else { result, err = collectUnknownArray(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } } // Discard the closing token. decoder.Token handles checking for matching delimiters if _, err := decoder.Token(); err != nil { return nil, err } return result, nil } return token, nil } func collectUnknownArray(decoder *json.Decoder) ([]interface{}, error) { // We need to create an empty array here instead of a nil array, since by getting // into this function at all we necessarily have seen a non-nil list. array := []interface{}{} for decoder.More() { value, err := collectUnknownField(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } array = append(array, value) } return array, nil } func collectUnknownObject(decoder *json.Decoder) (map[string]interface{}, error) { object := make(map[string]interface{}) for decoder.More() { key, err := collectUnknownField(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } // Keys have to be strings, which is particularly important as the encoder // won't except a map with interface{} keys stringKey, ok := key.(string) if !ok { return nil, fmt.Errorf("expected string key, found %T", key) } value, err := collectUnknownField(decoder) if err != nil { return nil, err } object[stringKey] = value } return object, nil }