Hi, I've been informed of how exactly to use the CBOR tag solution by the author of one of the cbor.io recommended CBOR libraries:
https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor/issues/241#issuecomment-656881180 This solution is clearly a bit nicer than the wrapping struct solution but it's specific to the given CBOR library whereas the wrapping struct solution would likely work with any serialization library. Not that Brian and Jonathan both suggested this solution... however it's very helpful to see this code example of how exactly to do it since it wasn't immediately obvious from reading the API docs of the various CBOR libraries. I shall quote the author's code sample herein: """ // Create TagSet with tag number and Go type tags := cbor.NewTagSet() err := tags.Add( cbor.TagOptions{EncTag: cbor.EncTagRequired, DecTag: cbor.DecTagRequired}, reflect.TypeOf(MyType{}), // your custom type MyTypeCBORTagNumber, // CBOR tag number for your custom type ) // Create decoding mode with TagSet dm, err := cbor.DecOptions{}.DecModeWithTags(tags) // Decode unknown CBOR blob var v interface{} err = dm.Unmarshal(b, &v) // Use type switch to handle different types switch v := v.(type) { case MyType: // custom type ... default: ... } """ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8ffa761a-bfec-4658-bccd-f9a5b1297991o%40googlegroups.com.
