Does anyone know of a simple way to pretty-print JSON output in Go?

I'd like to pretty-print the result of json.Marshal, as well as formatting an existing string of JSON so it's easier to read.

CodePudding user response：

CodePudding user response：

If you want to create a commandline utility to pretty print JSON

package main

import ("fmt"
  "encoding/json"
  "os"
  "bufio"
  "bytes"
)


func main(){

    var out bytes.Buffer

    reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
    text, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')

    err := json.Indent(&out, []byte(text), "", "  ")
    if err != nil {
      fmt.Println(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(out.Bytes()))
}

echo "{\"boo\":\"moo\"}" | go run main.go 

will produce the following output :

{
  "boo": "moo"
}

feel free to build a binary

go build main.go

and drop it in /usr/local/bin

CodePudding user response：

A simple off the shelf pretty printer in Go. One can compile it to a binary through:

go build -o jsonformat jsonformat.go

It reads from standard input, writes to standard output and allow to set indentation:

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "flag"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    indent := flag.String("indent", "  ", "indentation string/character for formatter")
    flag.Parse()
    src, err := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "problem reading: %s", err)
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    dst := &bytes.Buffer{}
    if err := json.Indent(dst, src, "", *indent); err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "problem formatting: %s", err)
        os.Exit(1)
    }
    if _, err = dst.WriteTo(os.Stdout); err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "problem writing: %s", err)
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

It allows to run a bash commands like:

cat myfile | jsonformat | grep "key"

CodePudding user response：

i am sort of new to go, but this is what i gathered up so far:

package srf

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "os"
)

func WriteDataToFileAsJSON(data interface{}, filedir string) (int, error) {
    //write data as buffer to json encoder
    buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
    encoder := json.NewEncoder(buffer)
    encoder.SetIndent("", "\t")

    err := encoder.Encode(data)
    if err != nil {
        return 0, err
    }
    file, err := os.OpenFile(filedir, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0755)
    if err != nil {
        return 0, err
    }
    n, err := file.Write(buffer.Bytes())
    if err != nil {
        return 0, err
    }
    return n, nil
}

This is the execution of the function, and just standard

b, _ := json.MarshalIndent(SomeType, "", "\t")

Code:

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"

    minerals "./minerals"
    srf "./srf"
)

func main() {

    //array of Test struct
    var SomeType [10]minerals.Test

    //Create 10 units of some random data to write
    for a := 0; a < 10; a   {
        SomeType[a] = minerals.Test{
            Name:   "Rand",
            Id:     123,
            A:      "desc",
            Num:    999,
            Link:   "somelink",
            People: []string{"John Doe", "Aby Daby"},
        }
    }

    //writes aditional data to existing file, or creates a new file
    n, err := srf.WriteDataToFileAsJSON(SomeType, "test2.json")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println("srf printed ", n, " bytes to ", "test2.json")

    //overrides previous file
    b, _ := json.MarshalIndent(SomeType, "", "\t")
    ioutil.WriteFile("test.json", b, 0644)

}

CodePudding user response：

Use json.MarshalIndent with string

This easyPrint function accepts argument data (any type of data) to print it into the intended (pretty) JSON format.

import (
  "encoding/json"
  "log"
)

func easyPrint(data interface{}) {
  manifestJson, _ := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", "  ")

  log.Println(string(manifestJson))
}

With name argument.

TODO: make argument name optional.

func easyPrint(data interface{}, name string) {
  manifestJson, _ := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", "  ")

  log.Println(name   " ->", string(manifestJson))
}