Paste JSON as Code • quicktype VS JSON-to-Go

Quicktype automates the generation of code from JSON data. It's a real timesaver when dealing with complex JSON structures in your applications.

Nice! JSON schemas are really useful, we use them a lot for code generation. Another library that does this for multiple languages is https://quicktype.io/ . It's great, but not so actively developed.

Quicktype is a speedy way to transform JSON data into well-structured, type-safe code in any programming language. Can help simplify the process of generating models and serializers from JSON, schema, or GraphQL—for secure, efficient data handling. 6-20PM finds it a "Godsend to convert JSON into data structures in any language."

Good candidate modules for these initial conversions are utility functions and code related to external APIs or specifications. It is possible to automatically generate TypeScript type definitions from Swagger contracts, GraphQL or JSON schemas to be included in your project. as well as you can use website called https://quicktype.io/ to generate types and interfaces in order to user them in your tsx or ts file.

Using Codable structs is better than dictionaries. Paste the JSON into https://quicktype.io/ and it will create the structs for you.

May be quicktype.io?

Check out quicktype.io. You can paste in your JSON and it will build your model for you. There's even an option for creating constructors. And you can choose your programming language. I usually spend some time cleaning it up a bit. It's not the perfect solution and I don't use it all the time, but it sure saves time for complicated models.

Hello. I used quicktype.io to try and implement an api in my code.

That site likely uses Matt's lib for that functionality: https://github.com/mholt/json-to-go

https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ is a nice tool for generating a struct definition to fit some sample JSON.

json-to-go is your friend.

JSON to struct. I use this about 100 times a day, no joke.

https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

Do your best to get static types on everything. Play a game with yourself where interface{} is banned and try to do your work. One of the most common sources of such loosely-typed values in JSON, so I'll point out this automatic struct generator for instance. If you have questions about a specific place you don't see how to avoid interface, feel free to ask. Every once in a while I do have to reach for something like this, but it should be rare.

But given we know ChatGPT can't accurately generate structs from even moderately complex json objects why bother doing all of that legwork of verifying and chiding chatgpt, when you can just drop it into a tool like https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ and get a correct struct in a fraction of the time?

I use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=maracko.json-to-go, which is an extension version of https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

I think using struct in such cases is almost always the right approach. There are tools which generates go structs from json this.