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nullable

This is a POC implementation of a Nullable type that allows knowing whether a field was nullable and/or optional in Go, meant for JSON serialization and deserialization.

It relies on Go generics, but rather than using a custom struct, it relies on a map as its underlying type. The problem with using a struct is that:

  • on deserialization from JSON, any `null`` value in the JSON input combined with a struct pointer leads Go to skip the UnmarhalJSON for that value
  • on serializaton to JSON, we do want the benefits of a nil pointer to be combined with omitempty in order for a non-specified field to not appear in the resulting JSON

Using a map as underlying type allows using nil while still making use of a non-explicit-pointer to a struct.

This is inspired from this post by KumanekoSakura.

See some examples of usage in nullable_test.go.

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