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golang: Find key in interface (recursively) and return value as interface
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// Find key in interface (recursively) and return value as interface | |
func Find(obj interface{}, key string) (interface{}, bool) { | |
//if the argument is not a map, ignore it | |
mobj, ok := obj.(map[string]interface{}) | |
if !ok { | |
return nil, false | |
} | |
for k, v := range mobj { | |
// key match, return value | |
if k == key { | |
return v, true | |
} | |
// if the value is a map, search recursively | |
if m, ok := v.(map[string]interface{}); ok { | |
if res, ok := Find(m, key); ok { | |
return res, true | |
} | |
} | |
// if the value is an array, search recursively | |
// from each element | |
if va, ok := v.([]interface{}); ok { | |
for _, a := range va { | |
if res, ok := Find(a, key); ok { | |
return res,true | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// element not found | |
return nil,false | |
} |
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