How to handle bson.ObjectID ?

[0xvoila]

Hello,

I have the following structure

type StudentModel struct {
	ID             bson.ObjectID               `bson:"_id,omitempty" jsonapi:"primary,students"`
	Name           StudentName          `bson:"name" jsonapi:"attr,name"`
	Email          string               `jsonapi:"attr,email"`
	Password       string               `bson:"password" jsonapi:"attr,password"`
	Phone          string               `bson:"phone" jsonapi:"attr,phone"`
	Country        string               `bson:"country" jsonapi:"attr,country"`
	Timezone       string               `bson:"name.timezone" jsonapi:"attr,timezone"`
	Org            string               `bson:"name.org" jsonapi:"attr,org"`
	Registration   []*RegistrationModel `jsonapi:"relation,registrations"`
	StudentProfile *StudentProfileModel `jsonapi:"relation,studentprofile"`
}

Jsonapi throws an error when doing

jsonapi.MarshalPayload(buff, student)

I think it can marshal only string and int.

If it is so then what is the right way to do this ?

[aren55555]

I'm not sure where the type bson.ObjectID comes from as there is no import statement. Is it your own type, or a type supplied by another 3rd party Go package?

[3bb]

@aren55555 bson.ObjectID is a specific ID for MongoDB documents.

[mwmahlberg]

I tracked this one down to

jsonapi/response.go

Line 248 in d0428f6

node.ID = v.Interface().(string)

I think it could be remedied with

case reflect.String:
	if s, ok := v.Interface().(fmt.Stringer); ok {
		node.ID = s.String()
	} else {
		node.ID = v.Interface().(string)
	}

The reason behind the proposed change would be that every fmt.Stringer could be used as a key.

Any objections?