How to take an existing Struct and turn it into a Map?

[veqryn]

This project says in its description: "Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa."

However, I can't seem to figure out how to do the vice versa part.

Given the following:

type Person struct {
	Name   string
	Age    int
}

p := Person{
	Name: "Foo",
	Age: 30,
}

What function should I call to get this as a result:

m := mapstructure.Encode(p)

fmt.Printf("%#v", m)
// map[string]interface {}{"Age":30, "Name":"Foo"}

[lelandbatey]

Apparently, you use Decode() but swap the struct and the map, according to this thread on the original mapstructure repo (now archived): mitchellh#53