error: json: unsupported type: func() time.Time in Golang

i am new in golang, just try some API in Echo Framework and got some error.

My Models :

package models

import (
	"net/http"
	"quotes/db"
)

type Quote struct {
	Id          int    `json:"id"`
	Title       string `json:"title"`
	Description string `json:"description"`
}

func GetAll() (Response, error) {
	var quotes Quote
	var res Response

	ctx := db.Init()

	ctx.Find(&quotes)

	res.Status = http.StatusOK
	res.Message = "Success"
	res.Data = ctx

	return res, nil
}

My Schema table

package schema

type Quotes struct {
	Id          int    `json:"id"`
	Title       string `json:"title"`
	Description string `json:"description"`
}

My Response type for Api

package models

type Response struct {
	Status  int         `json:"status"`
	Message string      `json:"message"`
	Data    interface{} `json:"data"`
}

i tried to add this in Models and Schema :

CreatedAt   time.Time `gorm:"type:timestamp" json:"created_at,string,omitempty"`
UpdatedAt   time.Time `gorm:"type:timestamp" json:"updated_at,string,omitempty"`
DeletedAt   time.Time `gorm:"type:timestamp" json:"deleted_at,string,omitempty"`

And Still Not Works, any solutions?

I expect the api work with no errors

When using gorm, you need to embed a gorm.Model struct, which includes fields ID, CreatedAt, UpdatedAt, DeletedAt.

Reference

// gorm.Model definition
type Model struct {
  ID        uint           `gorm:"primaryKey"`
  CreatedAt time.Time
  UpdatedAt time.Time
  DeletedAt gorm.DeletedAt `gorm:"index"`
}

Not familiar with echo but read below to understand how you use gorm.

In your case you can try doing the following:

package schema

type Quote struct {
    gorm.Model
    Title       string `json:"title"`
    Description string `json:"description"`
}

Then to get all the quotes:

func GetAll() (Response, error) {
    var quotes []schema.Quote // slice
    ctx := db.Init()
    // Assuming
    // ctx, err := gorm.Open(....)

    // https://gorm.io/docs/query.html
    result := db.Find(&quotes)
    if result.Error != nil {
        return Response{
            Status: http.StatusInternalServerError,
            Message: "Query failed",
        },result.Error
    }
    if result.RowsAffected == 0 {
        return Response{
            Status: http.StatusNotFound,
            Message: "No records found",
        },nil
    }
    
    return Response{
        Status: http.StatusOK,
        Message: "Success",
        Data: quotes,
    },nil
}

Keep in mind that the Data field has type interface{}, which means it can hold a value of any type. If the value wasn't a slice you would be using the & operator you take the address of the Quote value. A slice is already a pointer to underlying slice so need to use the & operator.

If you want to access the slice of Quote values from the Data field, you will need to use a type assertion to convert the value from the interface{} type to the []Quote type. Here's an example of how you could do this:

// Assume that response.Data holds a slice of Quote values
quotes, ok := response.Data.([]Quote)
if !ok {
    // Handle the case where response.Data is not a slice of Quote
}

Warning: Since you are returning a slice, then any changes to the returned slice will be modifying the initial slice too. If you wanted to avoid this then copy the slice values to a new slice:

quotesCopy = make([]schema.Quote, len(quotes))
copy(quotesCopy, quotes)