Encode simple slice type results in error

[frankMilde]

Huge fan of your product. I seem unable to figure out, how to encode a simple slice type type People []Person. Using

package main

import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/gorilla/schema"
)

type Person struct {
        Name string `schema:"name"`
        Age  int
}

type People []Person

func main() {
        jay := Person{"Jay", 34}
        may := Person{"May", 43}
        peeps := People{jay, may}

        values := make(map[string][]string)
        encoder := schema.NewEncoder()
        err := encoder.Encode(peeps, values)
        if err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }
        fmt.Printf("Encoded people: %v\n", values)
}

I get the error panic: schema: interface must be a struct.
Wrapping People into a struct now called Group also does not work:

package main

import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/gorilla/schema"
)

type Person struct {
        Name string `schema:"name"`
        Age  int
}

type Group struct {
        People []Person
}

func main() {
        jay := Person{"Jay", 34}
        may := Person{"May", 43}
        peeps := Group{[]Person{jay, may}}

        values := make(map[string][]string)
        encoder := schema.NewEncoder()
        err := encoder.Encode(peeps, values)
        if err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }
        fmt.Printf("Encoded group %v\n", values)
}

Exits with error:
panic: schema: encoder not found for [{Jay 34} {May 43}]

What am I doing wrong here? Ideally I would like to work with the first version of type People []Person.

[elithrar]

A slice of structs isn't a supported type to encode from. You can either:

• Loop over peeps and encode as you go.
• Register a custom converter for the People type - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/schema#Converter

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