Golang decode 2 JSON items into 1 struct

i'm trying to decode 2 JSON items into the same struct, because the second JSON complet the first one, but it doesn't work (do nothing) have you got some ideas ?

func getUserClip(this *LibraryController, id string) (*Clip){
//Test Api
//Send Request to azure search
Data := Clip{}
if req := GetClipById("b373400a-bd7e-452a-af68-36992b0323a5"); req == nil {
return nil
} else {
str, err := req.String()
if err != nil {
beego.Debug("Error Json req.String: ", err)
}
//Uncode Json to string
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(str), &Data); err != nil {
beego.Debug("Error json", err)
}
for i := range Data.Value {
if req = GetCliRedis(Data.Value[i].Id); err != nil {
return nil
} else {
str, err := req.String()
beego.Debug("JSON REDIS DEBUG: ", str)
if err != nil {
beego.Debug("Error Json req.String: ", err)
}
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(str), &Data); err != nil {
beego.Debug("Error json", err)
}
}
i++
}
}
return &Data
}

and the struct

type Clip struct {
Value 	[]InfoClip `json:value`
}
type InfoClip struct {
Id					string 		`json:id`
CreatedAt			time.Time 	`json:createdAt`
StartTimeCode  		int 	 	`json:startTimeCode`
EndTimeCode    		int 	 	`json:endTimeCode`
Metas           	metas  		`json:metas`
Tags				[]string 	`json:tags`
Categories			[]string 	`json:categories`
UserId				string 		`json:userId`
SourceId			string 		`json:sourceId`
ProviderName      	string 		`json:providerName`
ProviderReference 	string 		`json:providerReference`
PublicationStatus 	string 		`json:publicationStatus`
Name              	string 		`json:name`
FacebookPage      	string 		`json:facebookPage`
TwitterHandle     	string 		`json:twitterHandle`
PermaLinkUrl      	string 		`json:permalinkUrl`
Logo              	string 		`json:logo`
Link              	string 		`json:link`
Views 				int 		`json:views`
}
type metas struct {
Title      			string 		`json:title`
Tags       			[]string 	`json:tags`
Categories 			[]string 	`json:categories`
PermaLink  			string    	`json:permalink`
}

The JSON I receive is:

{  
"clipId":"9b2ea9bb-e54b-4291-ba16-9211fa3c755f",
"streamUrl":"https://<edited out>/asset-32e43a5d-1500-80c3-cc6b-f1e4fe2b5c44\/6c53fbf5-dbe9-4617-9692-78e8d76a7b6e_H264_500kbps_AAC_und_ch2_128kbps.mp4?sv=2012-02-12&sr=c&si=17ed71e8-5176-4432-8092-ee64928a55f6&sig=KHyToRlqvwQxWZXVvRYOkBOBOF0SuBLVmKiGp4joBpw%3D&st=2015-05-18T13%3A32%3A41Z&se=2057-05-07T13%3A32%3A41Z",
"startTimecode":"6",
"endTimecode":"16",
"createdAt":"2015-05-19 13:31:32",
"metas":"{\"title\":\"Zapping : Obama, Marine Le Pen et Michael Jackson\",\"tags\":[\"actualite\"],\"categories\":[\"actualite\"],\"permalink\":\"http:\/\/videos.lexpress.fr\/actualite\/zapping-obama-marine-le-pen-et-michael-jackson_910357.html\"}",
"sourceId":"6c53fbf5-dbe9-4617-9692-78e8d76a7b6e",
"providerName":"dailymotion",
"providerReference":"x1xmnxq",
"publicationStatus":"1",
"userId":"b373400a-bd7e-452a-af68-36992b0323a5",
"name":"LEXPRESS.fr",
"facebookPage":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LExpress",
"twitterHandle":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lexpress",
"permalinkBaseURL":"https:\/\/tym.net\/fr\/{CLIP_ID}",
"logo":"lexpress-120px.png",
"link":"http:\/\/videos.lexpress.fr\/"
}

The Redis complet the azure search missing information :

here the struct :

type Clip struct {
Value 	[]SearchClip `json:value`
}
type SearchClip struct {
Id         			string `json:id`
CreatedAt  			string`json:createdAt`
Tags       			[]string `json:tags`
Categories 			[]string `json:categories`
UserId     			string `json:userId`
SourceId   			string `json:sourceId`
Views      			int `json:views`
}

this is the basic information and redis complet this

I don't want to merge 2 struct into a third one i think it's not the better process, i will do it if it's the last solution.

For lack of activity I'm just gonna post the embedding option as a solution. It's probably the simplest way to do what you want.

type ClipInfoAndMeta struct {
Metas
InfoClip
}

Note I upper cased the name on metas not sure it's necessary but I believe it will be. The language feature being used here is called 'embedding' and it works a lot like composition except that the fields/methods for embedded types are more or less 'hoisted' to the containing types scope. IE with an instance of ClipInfoAndMeta you can directly access any exported field that is defined on InfoClip.

One oddity of your set up is that you'll have collisions on field names between the two types. Not sure how that would play out. With all this being said, it would be helpful to see the json string you're trying to Unmarshal from. As I've been writing this I realized that metas is just a subset of InfoClip. Which has confused me about what you are actually trying to do? I mean, if the data coming back is all in one object, it would mean InfoClip is sufficient for storing all of it. If that is the case you have no reason for the other object... And if you want to trim down the fields which get passed to the display layer of your app you should just define a method on the InfoClip type like func (i *InfoClip) GetMetas() Metas { return &Metas{ ... } } then you can just deal with the one type everywhere and hand off the Metas to the display layer when it's needed.

After a lot of trial and error, I present to you this fully functional solution:

package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"time"
)
type Clip struct {
Value []InfoClip `json:value`
}
type customTime struct {
time.Time
}
const ctLayout = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
func (ct *customTime) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) (err error) {
if b[0] == '"' && b[len(b)-1] == '"' {
b = b[1 : len(b)-1]
}
ct.Time, err = time.Parse(ctLayout, string(b))
return
}
type InfoClip struct {
Id                string     `json:"clipId"`
CreatedAt         customTime `json:"createdAt"`
StartTimeCode     string     `json:"startTimeCode"` //if you want ints here, you'll have to decode manually, or fix the json beforehand
EndTimeCode       string     `json:"endTimeCode"`   //same for this one
Metas             metas      `json:"-"`
MetasString       string     `json:"metas"`
Tags              []string   `json:"tags"`
Categories        []string   `json:"categories"`
UserId            string     `json:"userId"`
SourceId          string     `json:"sourceId"`
ProviderName      string     `json:"providerName"`
ProviderReference string     `json:"providerReference"`
PublicationStatus string     `json:"publicationStatus"`
Name              string     `json:"name"`
FacebookPage      string     `json:"facebookPage"`
TwitterHandle     string     `json:"twitterHandle"`
PermaLinkUrl      string     `json:"permalinkBaseURL"`
Logo              string     `json:"logo"`
Link              string     `json:"link"`
Views             int        `json:"views"`
}
type metas struct {
Title      string   `json:"title"`
Tags       []string `json:"tags"`
Categories []string `json:"categories"`
PermaLink  string   `json:"permalink"`
}
var jsonString = `{  
"clipId":"9b2ea9bb-e54b-4291-ba16-9211fa3c755f",
"streamUrl":"https://<edited out>/asset-32e43a5d-1500-80c3-cc6b-f1e4fe2b5c44\/6c53fbf5-dbe9-4617-9692-78e8d76a7b6e_H264_500kbps_AAC_und_ch2_128kbps.mp4?sv=2012-02-12&sr=c&si=17ed71e8-5176-4432-8092-ee64928a55f6&sig=KHyToRlqvwQxWZXVvRYOkBOBOF0SuBLVmKiGp4joBpw%3D&st=2015-05-18T13%3A32%3A41Z&se=2057-05-07T13%3A32%3A41Z",
"startTimecode":"6",
"endTimecode":"16",
"createdAt":"2015-05-19 13:31:32",
"metas":"{\"title\":\"Zapping : Obama, Marine Le Pen et Michael Jackson\",\"tags\":[\"actualite\"],\"categories\":[\"actualite\"],\"permalink\":\"http:\/\/videos.lexpress.fr\/actualite\/zapping-obama-marine-le-pen-et-michael-jackson_910357.html\"}",
"sourceId":"6c53fbf5-dbe9-4617-9692-78e8d76a7b6e",
"providerName":"dailymotion",
"providerReference":"x1xmnxq",
"publicationStatus":"1",
"userId":"b373400a-bd7e-452a-af68-36992b0323a5",
"name":"LEXPRESS.fr",
"facebookPage":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LExpress",
"twitterHandle":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lexpress",
"permalinkBaseURL":"https:\/\/tym.net\/fr\/{CLIP_ID}",
"logo":"lexpress-120px.png",
"link":"http:\/\/videos.lexpress.fr\/"
}`
func main() {
res := parseJson(jsonString)
fmt.Printf("%+v\n",res)
}
func parseJson(theJson string) InfoClip {
toParseInto := struct {
InfoClip
MetasString string `json:"metas"`
}{
InfoClip:    InfoClip{},
MetasString: ""}
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonString), &toParseInto)
if err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(toParseInto.MetasString), &toParseInto.InfoClip.Metas)
if err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
return toParseInto.InfoClip
}

What are we doing in the parseJson function?

We create a new struct and assign that to the toParseInto variable. We design the struct in a way that it contains all of the fields from InfoClip via embedding, and We add a field to temporarily hold the JSON string metas.

We then unmarshal into that struct, which, after fixing the issues listed below, works fine.

After that, we unmarshal that inner JSON into the correct field in the embedded InfoClip.

We can now easily return that embedded InfoClip to get what we really wanted.

Now, all the issues I have identified in your original solution:

1. The time format in your JSON is not the standard time format to be used in JSON. That is defined in some RFC, but anyways: because of that, we have to use our own type customTime to parse that. It handles just like a normal time.Time, because that is embedded within.
2. All your json tags were wrong. All of them had missing quotes, and some were just not even correct.
3. startTimeCode and endTimeCode are strings in the JSON, not ints

Left to you to improve:

• Error handling: Don't just panic in the parseJson function, but rather return the error somehow
• If you want startTimecode and endTimecode to be available as ints, parse them manually. You can employ a "hack" similar to the one I used to parse the inner JSON.

One final note, not related to this answer but rather to your question: If you had provided both your code and the JSON with your original question, you would have had an answer in probably less than an hour. Please, please don't make this harder than it needs to be.

EDIT: I forgot to provide my sources, I used this question to parse your time format.