I am trying to query objects from sqlite but getting this error because of the type time:
(sql: Scan error on column index 1: unsupported Scan, storing driver.Value type []uint8 into type *time.Time)
my struct is:
type Timeline struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Timestamp *time.Time `json:"timestamp"`
and my database is like this:
CREATE TABLE timelines (id text, timestamp text, ...
and one of the sample rows is:
('Locked in VR', '2018-03-17 10:50:59.548+01:00',...
any ideas?
should I have something in the struct like?
Timestamp *time.Time `json:"timestamp" gorm:"time"`
I am not familiar with gorm, but should not the definition of timestamp of type datetime
instead of text
? Also: when you tag gorm:"time"
the column name should be time
and not timestamp
, or the tag gorm:"timestamp"
. But you can leave out the gorm tag.
To make it simple, you can let gorm create the table:
db, err := gorm.Open("sqlite3", "test.db")
db.CreateTable(&Timeline{})
Using this would take care of it:
type Timeline struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Timestamp *time.Time `json:"timestamp" gorm:"type:datetime"`
}
You could even change the declared type of the Timestamp
field to something else, say int64
to represent Unix times. Then you could write a Scanner to read the datetime field into the int64 field.
type TimeStampUnix int64
type Timeline struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
TimeStamp TimeStampUnix `json:"timestamp" gorm:"type:datetime"`
}
func (t *TimeStampUnix) Scan(src interface{}) error {
switch src.(type) {
case time.Time:
*t = TimeStampUnix(src.(time.Time).Unix())
return nil
case []byte:
// bonus code to read text field of format '2014-12-31 14:21:01-0400'
//
str := string(src.([]byte))
var y, m, d, hr, min, s, tzh, tzm int
var sign rune
_, e := fmt.Sscanf(str, "%d-%d-%d %d:%d:%d%c%d:%d",
&y, &m, &d, &hr, &min, &s, &sign, &tzh, &tzm)
if e != nil {
return e
}
offset := 60 * (tzh*60 + tzm)
if sign == '-' {
offset = -1 * offset
}
loc := time.FixedZone("local-tz", offset)
t1 := time.Date(y, time.Month(m), d, hr, min, s, 0, loc)
*t = TimeStampUnix(t1.Unix())
return nil
default:
return fmt.Errorf("Value '%s' of incompatible type '%T' found", string(src.([]byte)), src)
}
}