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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2013-01-31 07:49:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2013-01-31 07:49:23 -0800 |
| commit | f3849bfcf7e95602541cf12f3e38e68ad8f4565d (patch) | |
| tree | 7ff27c6b46ccdee85beffca75322ef07757bf232 /src | |
| parent | 86e7f045a7cf645706eccaf5b9826195cbcf343b (diff) | |
| download | go-f3849bfcf7e95602541cf12f3e38e68ad8f4565d.tar.gz | |
encoding/json: document case-insensitive Unmarshal key matching
Fixes issue 4664.
R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://codereview.appspot.com/7237060
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go b/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go index 610945022..1d723af12 100644 --- a/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go +++ b/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ import ( // the value pointed at by the pointer. If the pointer is nil, Unmarshal // allocates a new value for it to point to. // +// To unmarshal JSON into a struct, Unmarshal matches incoming object +// keys to the keys used by Marshal (either the struct field name or its tag), +// preferring an exact match but also accepting a case-insensitive match. +// // To unmarshal JSON into an interface value, Unmarshal unmarshals // the JSON into the concrete value contained in the interface value. // If the interface value is nil, that is, has no concrete value stored in it, |