feature: Unmarshaler interface #155
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Implements an
Unmarshalerinterface. This provides similar behavior toUnmarshalJSON, which people are familiar with already from the standard library. It is complementary toDecodeHook. It runs after decode hooks, as though it were simply another specializedoutputKind.DecodeHook: Decoder is responsible for decoding all types. Can be composed using various middleware-like function hooks. Powerful, but requires knowing and registering all custom types with the decoder.Unmarshaler: Types have responsibility for decoding themselves. Inversion of responsibility. Often better for abstraction. E.g. Users of a library don't need to know the details of how to decodes all its custom types, instead we just let theUnmarshalerinterface abstract that away.The implementation aims for similar behavior to
UnmarshalJSON, e.g. allowing value receivers.I believe I've got all the essential cases covered by unit tests.
Alternative to #11, which was stale and didn't have proper unit tests.