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Samuel Fuller
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Need helping looping over Go struct/array in .html file

Hello, this is my first post and I am also a web development noob. I apologize if this issue is basic.

I have a main.go file which contains a struct that contains an array. I would like to display all of the contents of the array within a separate .html file. I have managed to get it working without looping but I would like to display the entire array as the size and contents change. I will show the different iterations I have tried at the bottom.

Current working hard coded array contents

    <h1>{{(index .Results 0).Title}}</h1>
    <h1>{{(index .Results 0).ReleaseDate}}</h1>
    <img src="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/{{(index .Results 0).PosterPath}}">
    <h1>{{(index .Results 1).Title}}</h1>
    <h1>{{(index .Results 1).ReleaseDate}}</h1>
    <img src="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/{{(index .Results 1).PosterPath}}">
    <h1>{{(index .Results 2).Title}}</h1>
    <h1>{{(index .Results 2).ReleaseDate}}</h1>
    <img src="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/{{(index .Results 2).PosterPath}}">

Struct in main.go file. Trying to access Results[]

type Movies struct {
    TotalResults int `json:"total_results"`
    Results      []struct {
        PosterPath   string `json:"poster_path"`
        ID           int    `json:"id"`
        Title        string `json:"title"`
        Overview     string `json:"overview"`
        ReleaseDate  string `json:"release_date"`
    } `json:"results"`
}

Adding this for clarity.(no issues here) main.go function that handles the searching. GET request from movieDB API.

func search(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    var movies Movies
    if r.Method != "POST" {
        http.Redirect(w, r, "/", http.StatusSeeOther)
        return
    }
    searchValue := r.FormValue("query")
    //replace spaces with addition signs
    searchResult := strings.Replace(searchValue, " ", "+", -1)

    response, err := http.Get("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=xxxREDACTEDxxx&query=" + searchResult)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("The HTTP request failed with error %s\n", err)
    } else {
        data, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
        json.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &movies)
    }
    tpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "search.html", movies)
}

Loop I've tried that doesn't compile because 'i' isn't recognized

<script>
      for (var i in {{.Results}}) {
        document.body.innerHTML = "<h1>" + {{.Results[i].Title}} + "</h1>"
      }
</script>

This loop compiles but displays nothing

<script>
      for (var i in {{.Results}}) {
        document.body.innerHTML = "<h1>" + .Results[i].Title + "</h1>"
      }
</script>

This loop displays 'undefined'

<script>
    var arr = {{.Results}}
      for (var i in arr) {
        document.body.innerHTML = "<h1>" + arr[i].Title + "</h1>"
      }
</script>

I am currently out of ideas and I am just having a hard time wrapping my head around getting the information from one place to another(and javascript in general). Any help would greatly be appreciated thank you.

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Karthikeyan • Edited

I am not sure why do you need this to be in the script tag. Iterate the h1 as usual with the template. It does the magic

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Samuel Fuller

Ahhhhhh I see what you mean. I've been thinking about templates all wrong. I'm pretty sure I can get it fixed now. Thank you for the advice.

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Karthikeyan

I am glad that helped. Happy hacking