Golang - Returning null value when return type is string

Question

I have a go struct something like this

type Country struct {
    WhoAllAreComing    []string `json:"attendees"`
    NameOfThePlace     string   `json:"name"`
    EventDate          string   `json:"eventDate"`
}

This is the response struct that I need to send back after ingesting the input and manipulating it.

Now if suppose the EventDate is empty, I need to pass a null in the json response and not an empty string. How do we convert an empty string in go to a null in json response.

Using json.Marshall to marshall my response into Json is just converting it to empty string for EventDate.

Answer 1

Use a pointer to return a null instead of an empty string.

type Country struct {
    WhoAllAreComing    []string `json:"attendees"`
    NameOfThePlace     string   `json:"name"`
    EventDate          *string   `json:"eventDate"`
}