Beginning Go Programming: Build Reliable and Efficient Applications with Go

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R. Hussain, M. ZulfiqarBeginning Go Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8858-0_6

6. Working with JSON

Rumeel Hussain¹   and Maryam Zulfiqar²

(1)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

(2)

Lahore, Pakistan

 

JSON is one of the most popular data formats used to transmit data over web applications. Like many modern languages, Go also supports the conversion of data to and from JSON. In this chapter, we walk you through recipes for working with data encoded as JSON, especially how to encode and decode JSON-formatted data for use in Go applications.

JSON Package

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is one of the most popular data serialization and interchange formats. The ...