JSON in Go

Go includes encoding/json in its standard library.

Key points

Go includes encoding/json in its standard library.

Parse JSON

import "encoding/json"
var user User
err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(text), &user)

Stringify JSON

text, err := json.MarshalIndent(user, "", "  ")

Validate JSON

if !json.Valid([]byte(text)) {
  log.Fatal("invalid json")
}