dendrite/clientapi/httputil/httputil.go

// Copyright 2017 Vector Creations Ltd
//
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package httputil

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/clientapi/jsonerror"
	"github.com/matrix-org/util"
)

// UnmarshalJSONRequest into the given interface pointer. Returns an error JSON response if
// there was a problem unmarshalling. Calling this function consumes the request body.
func UnmarshalJSONRequest(req *http.Request, iface interface{}) *util.JSONResponse {
	if err := json.NewDecoder(req.Body).Decode(iface); err != nil {
		// TODO: We may want to suppress the Error() return in production? It's useful when
		// debugging because an error will be produced for both invalid/malformed JSON AND
		// valid JSON with incorrect types for values.
		return &util.JSONResponse{
			Code: http.StatusBadRequest,
			JSON: jsonerror.BadJSON("The request body could not be decoded into valid JSON. " + err.Error()),
		}
	}
	return nil
}