How to decode JSON with type convert from string to float64

Just letting you know that you can do this without Unmarshal and use json.decode. Here is Go Playground

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

type Product struct {
    Name  string `json:"name"`
    Price float64 `json:"price,string"`
}

func main() {
    s := `{"name":"Galaxy Nexus","price":"3460.00"}`
    var pro Product
    err := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(s)).Decode(&pro)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    fmt.Println(pro)
}

The answer is considerably less complicated. Just add tell the JSON interpeter it's a string encoded float64 with ,string (note that I only changed the Price definition):

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
)

type Product struct {
    Name  string
    Price float64 `json:",string"`
}

func main() {
    s := `{"name":"Galaxy Nexus", "price":"3460.00"}`
    var pro Product
    err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(s), &pro)
    if err == nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", pro)
    } else {
        fmt.Println(err)
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", pro)
    }
}