This package should be used in place of the built-in null types in the sql package.

The real benefit of this packages comes in its implementation of MarshalJSON and UnmarshalJSON to properly encode/decode null values.

$ go get github.com/gobuffalo/nulls

• string (nulls.String) - Replaces sql.NullString
• int64 (nulls.Int64) - Replaces sql.NullInt64
• float64 (nulls.Float64) - Replaces sql.NullFloat64
• bool (nulls.Bool) - Replaces sql.NullBool
• []byte (nulls.ByteSlice)
• float32 (nulls.Float32)
• int (nulls.Int)
• int32 (nulls.Int32)
• uint32 (nulls.UInt32)
• time.Time (nulls.Time)
• uuid.UUID (nulls.UUID)