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greenlight/internal/data/runtime.go

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package data
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
// ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat : Define an error that our UnmarshalJSON() method can return if we're unable to parse or convert the JSON string successfully
var ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat = errors.New("invalid runtime format")
// Runtime
/*
Declare a custom Runtime type, which has the underlying type int32
(the same as our Movie struct field)
*/
type Runtime int32
// MarshalJSON
/*
Implement a MarshalJSON() method on the Runtime type so that it satisfies the json.Marshaler interface. This should return the JSON-encoded value for the movie runtime (in our case, it will return string in the format "<runtime> mins").
*/
func (r Runtime) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
// Generate a string containing the movie runtime in the required format.
jsonValue := fmt.Sprintf("%d mins", r)
// Use the strconv.Quote() function on the string to wrap it in double
// quotes. It needs to be surrounded by double quotes in order to be
// a valid *JSON string*.
quotedJSONValue := strconv.Quote(jsonValue)
// Convert the quoted string value to a byte slice and return it.
return []byte(quotedJSONValue), nil
}
// UnmarshalJSON
// Implement a UnmarshalJSON() method on the Runtime type so that it satisfies the json.Unmarshaler interface. IMPORTANT: Because UnmarshalJSON() needs to modify the receiver (our Runtime type), we must use a pointer receiver for this to work correctly. Otherwise, we will only be modifying a copy (which is then discarded when this method returns).
func (r *Runtime) UnmarshalJSON(jsonValue []byte) error {
// We expect that the incoming JSON value will be a string in the format "<runtimes> mins", and the first thing we need to do is remove the surrounding double-quotes from this string. If we can't unquote it, then we return the ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat error.
unquotedJSONValue, err := strconv.Unquote(string(jsonValue))
if err != nil {
return ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat
}
// Split the string to isolate the part containing the number.
parts := strings.Split(unquotedJSONValue, " ")
// Sanity check the parts of the string to make sure it was in the expected format. If it isn't, we return the ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat error again.
if len(parts) != 2 || parts[1] != "mins" {
return ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat
}
// Otherwise, parse the string containing the number into an int32. Again, if this fails, return the ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat error.
i, err := strconv.ParseInt(parts[0], 10, 32)
if err != nil {
return ErrInvalidRuntimeFormat
}
// Convert the int32 to a Runtime type and assign this to the receiver. Note that we use the * operator to deference the receiver (which is a pointer to a Runtime type) in order to set the underlying value of the pointer.
*r = Runtime(i)
return nil
}