unmarshalling

Title says it all. I would like to know what is the principial difference between putting JAXB annotation (like @XmlElement ) on field / getter / setter. It seems to me that (in simple cases) it does not matter. E.g. lets take this class A { private String a; public String getA() { return a; } public void setA(String a) { this.a = a; } } now it seems to me that it does not matter if I put @XmlElement on member field or on getter / setter. It just marshalls ok. Are there any usecases when I need to make difference and when it does matter? When I go to unmarshall this (xml back to A) what JAXB

I have @XmlRootElement(namespace = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", name = "content") @XmlType(name = "course") public class Course implements Resource ... @XmlElementWrapper(name="subcourses") @XmlElement(name="course") List<Xlink> subcourses; //!? and Xlink class, which works fine in inline variable. public class Xlink { private String href; private String value; @XmlAttribute(namespace = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink") public String getHref() { return href; } public void setHref(String href) { this.href = href; } @XmlValue public String getValue() { return value; } public void setValue(String

I have XML data I am retrieving via a REST API that I am unmarshal-ing into a GO struct. One of the fields is a date field, however the date format returned by the API does not match the default time.Time parse format and thus the unmarshal fails. Is there any way to specify to the unmarshal function which date format to use in the time.Time parsing? I'd like to use properly defined types and using a string to hold a datetime field feels wrong. Sample struct: type Transaction struct { Id int64 `xml:"sequencenumber"` ReferenceNumber string `xml:"ourref"` Description string `xml:"description"`

I have struct type tySurvey struct { Id int64 `json:"id,omitempty"` Name string `json:"name,omitempty"` } I do json.Marshal write JSON bytes in HTML page. jQuery modifies name field in object and encodes object using jQueries JSON.stringify and jQuery posts string to Go handler. id field encoded as string. Sent: {"id":1} Received: {"id":"1"} Problem is that json.Unmarshal fails to unmarshal that JSON because id is not integer anymore. json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type int64 What is best way to handle such data? I do not wish to manually convert every field. I wish to write

golang beginner here. I want to unmarshall some JSON shown here: { "intro": { "title": "The Little Blue Gopher", "story": [ "Once upon a time, long long ago, there was a little blue gopher. Our little blue friend wanted to go on an adventure, but he wasn't sure where to go. Will you go on an adventure with him?", "One of his friends once recommended going to New York to make friends at this mysterious thing called \"GothamGo\". It is supposed to be a big event with free swag and if there is one thing gophers love it is free trinkets. Unfortunately, the gopher once heard a campfire story about