Mastering Go - Second Edition

Go and the JSON format

JSON is a very popular text-based format designed to be an easy and light way to pass information between JavaScript systems. However, JSON is also being used for creating configuration files for applications and storing data in a structured format.

The encoding/json package offers the Encode() and Decode() functions, which allow the conversion of a Go object into a JSON document and vice versa. Additionally, the encoding/json package offers the Marshal() and Unmarshal() functions, which work similarly to Encode() and Decode() and are based on the Encode() and Decode() methods. The main difference between the Marshal() and Unmarshal() pair and the Encode() and Decode() pair is that the former pair works on single objects, ...