[simiones]

You can, but then it's a lot of work to actually traverse that map, especially if you want error handling. Here is how it looks like for a pretty basic JSON string: https://go.dev/play/p/xkspENB80JZ. It's ~50 lines of code to access a single key in a three-layer-deep JSON.

[lenkite]

Its more like 30 lines of code without the prints. However, one generally should code generic functions for this. The k8s apimachinery module has helper functions which is useful for this sort of stuff. Ex: `NestedFieldNoCopy` and its wrapper functions.

https://github.com/kubernetes/apimachinery/blob/95b78024e3fe...

Ideally, such `nested` map helper functions should be part of the stdlib.

[simiones]

Sure, in production you'd definitely want something like that, but the context was an interview exercise, I don't think you should go coding generic wrappers in that context.