Write Your Own json.Unmarshal

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I had a recent situation where I needed to populate an existing struct with values, similar to the way json.Unmarshal works. These values would come from various sources, like URL query parameters, form data, path variables, or something along those lines. To give an example, I needed to map a URL like /newStudent?name=Albert&age=16&city=Zurich onto a Golang struct like this: type Student struct {…

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