UnmarshalText issue about schema HOT 3 CLOSED

UPDATE: The following works (using single email instead of a slice):

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/gorilla/schema"
)

type Email struct {
	Address string
}

func (e *Email) UnmarshalText(text []byte) (err error) {
	s := string(text)
	e.Address, err = s, nil
	return
}

type Person struct {
	Name   string
	Email // <- change
}

func main() {
	v := map[string][]string{
		"name": {"John"},
		"email": {"foo"},  // <- changes
	}
	var p Person

	err := schema.NewDecoder().Decode(&p, v)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(p)
}

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I THINK I kinda understand what is going on here. Can someone verify my way of thinking?

TL;DR Because the lib thinks this is a struct, it assumes I'll be using syntax for using structs, e.g. (emails.0=xxx). My use case is this:

Given the following query string ?items=foo.bar,baz.qux I want to split each item on . and create a struct, e.g.

type Item struct {
  field0 string
  field1 string
}

Does the use case make sense at all? Should I use UnmarshalText for this or sth else?

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