为什么json解析不失败,并将完全不同的类型传递给decode()?

我有以下数据结构,我想从一个api解析它们:

type OrderBook struct {
    Pair       string           `json:"pair"`
    UpdateTime int64            `json:"update_time"`
}

type depthResponse struct {
    Result OrderBook `json:"result"`
    // doesn't matter here
    //Cmd    string              `json:"-"`
}

当我分析以下内容时:

data := `{"error":{"code":"3016","msg":"交易对错误"},"cmd":"depth"}`

不会失败的。为什么?

完整源代码( playground )

package main

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

type OrderBook struct {
    Pair       string           `json:"pair"`
    UpdateTime int64            `json:"update_time"`
}

type depthResponse struct {
    Result OrderBook `json:"result"`
}

func main() {
    data := `{"error":{"code":"3016","msg":"交易对错误"},"cmd":"depth"}`
    r := strings.NewReader(data)

    var resp depthResponse
    if err := json.NewDecoder(r).Decode(&resp); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("We should end up here: %v", err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("%+v\n", resp)
}