# Parsing YAML key/values as list of structs in Go
**URL:** https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308
**Category:** Step Dev
**Tags:** step
**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308 "2021-01-05T12:51:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jastley](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/jastley)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308/1 "2021-01-05T12:51:58Z")
In a step that I’m working on, I want the user to be able to provide a list of optional YAML key/value pairs for a specific step input, currently trying to implement as:
```
inputs:
- uri_actions:
- button_text: Some text
uri: www.google.com
- button_text: Some text 2
uri: www.google2.com
- button_text: Some text 3
uri: www.google3.com
```
and then attempting to parse in Go as structs:
```
type config struct {
UriActionList []UriAction `env:"uri_actions"`
}
type UriAction struct {
ButtonText string `env:"button_text"`
Uri string `env:"uri"`
}
```
But this isn’t playing nice at all… what am I doing wrong? Is there a more civilised way to go about this?
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### Author:  [@bitce](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/bitce)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308/2 "2021-01-08T10:02:31Z")
Hi @jastley!
I saw your discussion on our public slack too, so hoping this is sorted out, but in case anyone comes across this in the future, the recommended approach would be:
```
- my_step@1:
inputs:
- my_list: '[{"name":"obj","value": "123" }]'
```
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### Author:  [@jastley](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/jastley)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308/3 "2021-01-08T10:28:50Z")
hey @bitce thanks for that, yeah this is what I ended up falling back to, but I don’t think it’s very user-friendly and it seemed far more intuitive to be able to set these values via YAML 😕
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### Author:  [@bitce](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/bitce)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308/4 "2021-01-11T10:14:39Z")
I see, thanks for letting us know! Seems like a fair request, I’ll make sure to take note 🙂
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### Author:  [@jastley](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/jastley)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/parsing-yaml-key-values-as-list-of-structs-in-go/15308/5 "2021-01-11T22:41:20Z")
For reference, [I opened a GitHub issue](https://github.com/bitrise-io/go-steputils/issues/23) requesting a way to pass a list of objects to steps, while it remains intuitive for the user to continue writing YAML rather than stringified JSON workarounds 🙂