What's the golang equivalent of converting any JSON to standard dict in Python?

Question

In Python you can do something like this:

r = requests.get(\"http://wikidata.org/w/api.php\", params=params)
data = r.json()

And now data

Answer 1

I prefer to add a type declaration, that way you can add methods to simplify the type assertions:

package main

import (
   "encoding/json"
   "log"
   "net/http"
   "net/url"
)

type Map map[string]interface{}

func (m Map) M(s string) Map {
   return m[s].(map[string]interface{})
}

func (m Map) N(s string) float64 {
   return m[s].(float64)
}

func main() {
   v := url.Values{}
   v.Set("action", "wbgetentities")
   v.Set("format", "json")
   v.Set("ids", "Q24871")
   resp, e := http.Get("https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?" + v.Encode())
   if e != nil {
      log.Fatal(e)
   }
   data := Map{}
   json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
   pageid := data.M("entities").M("Q24871").N("pageid")
   println(pageid == 28268)
}

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Type_declarations