Golang mgo getting empty objects

Question

I\'m trying to learn Go API development. I have a MongoDB instance running in a Docker container. I\'m trying to follow a few guides but am failing on simple queries. I don\

Answer 1

You must export fields of structs, else they are ignored by the mgo package. Change fields of users to User and Data.

type users struct {
    User string `bson:"user" json:"user"`
    Data string `bson:"data" json:"data"` 
}

By default when a struct value is transformed / stored / retrieved from MongoDB, the field name is used. If you want to use different names, you may use tags to tell what names should the fields map to.