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superherohub/pkg/people/birthday.go

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package people
import (
"encoding/json"
"time"
)
// Declaring birthday layout constant
const birthdayLayout = "2006-01-02" // YYYY-MM-DD - is default birthday layout
// Birthday is a custom encapsulation type for time.Time to handle birthdays
// by decoding and encoding from and to JSON format
type Birthday struct {
time.Time // Embedding time.Time
err error // Time parsing error
}
// UnmarshalJSON decodes a date text to time.Time object
func (t *Birthday) UnmarshalJSON(bytes []byte) (err error) {
// 1. Decode the bytes into an int64
// 2. Parse the unix timestamp
// Is value quoted?
if rune(bytes[0]) == '"' || rune(bytes[0]) == '\'' {
bytes = bytes[1 : len(bytes)-1] // remove quotes
}
// Parse string to time.Time
t.Time, t.err = time.Parse(birthdayLayout, string(bytes))
t.err = err
return
}
// MarshalJSON encodes a time.Time object to date JSON text
func (t Birthday) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return json.Marshal(t.Time.Format(birthdayLayout))
}