Say you have some JSON data like this (I’ll be using Go on purpose here): The challenge here is to build a machine that does four things: Validate that the JSON is valid syntax. Validate that the JSON is valid against a schema. If there is a problem with one part of the data, first […]
I don’t think there is any doubt that this is a unit test: You have a function, and you’re testing that the function returns what you think it should return. A code base probably has lots of this as they are easy to write, useful, and not flakey. I also don’t think there is any […]
Says my physical therapist. I hurt my back most recently doing back squats. 135lbs on the bar. That’s nothing for my big elephant legs. It was my third rep of what was going to be 60 reps over 15 minutes as part of an EMOM (Every Minute on the Minute) workout involving box step-ups as […]
One. You don’t have to json.Unmarshal into an empty struct. I learned with examples like this: There, post is totally defaults, meaning because favorite_count was missing in the JSON data, post.FavoriteCount defaults to 0, the Go default value for an int. But it doesn’t have to start that way! You can Unmarshal it into a […]
