json2go

This CLI tool allows for the simple conversion of a JSON payload into ready-to-use Go types. The JSON payload can be supplied via file, STDIN, or URL fetching. The generation is able to correctly parse all top-level data types as well as deeply nested arrays and objects. Optional CLI arguments allow the customization of the outputted Go files.

Installation

go install github.com/alehechka/json2go/cmd/json2go@latest

Usage

From local JSON file:

json2go generate --file=example.json

From STDIN:

cat example.json | json2go generate

From URL fetching:

json2go generate --url="https://gorest.co.in/public/v2/users"

CLI Arguments

Argument	Example	Type	Purpose	Default
File name	--file=example.json	string	Valid path to local file on disk
URL	--url="https://example.com	string	Valid URL that JSON can be fetched via GET request from.
Root Object Name	--root=RootObject	string	Name for top-level object in JSON payload	Root
Package Name	--package=api	string	Name of package to generate types into. A nested package path is valid	main
Output File Name	--output	string	The name of the file that is generated. If a file is provided as input, will use matching name unless explicitly provided. The ".go" extension is not required and will be automatically appended.	types.go
Time Format	--time=2006-01-02	string	Time format to use while parsing strings for potential time.Time variables. View time.Time constants for possible defaults: https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants	RFC3339
Omit Empty	--omitempty	bool	Appends the omitempty to all object variable tags.	false
Alphabetical Order	--alpha	bool	Sorts all keys into alphabetical order before generation.	false
Debug logging	--debug	bool	Will output debugging console logs.	false
Quiet	--quiet	bool	Will quiet fatal errors.	false
STDOUT	--out	bool	Instead of generating a Go file, will instead print the contents to STDOUT	false

Local Development

While developing locally, the CLI can be used directly with the go run option as follows:

go run cmd/json2go/main.go generate --file=example.json <...args>