How can I pretty-print JSON using Go?

问题:

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

The stock http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/ package does not seem to include functionality for this (EDIT: it does, see accepted answer) and a quick google doesn't turn up anything obvious.

Uses I'm looking for are both pretty-printing the result of json.Marshal and just formatting a string full of JSON from wherever, so it's easier to read for debug purposes.

回答1:

By pretty-print, I assume you mean indented, like so

{
    "data": 1234
}

rather than

{"data":1234}

The easiest way to do this is with MarshalIndent, which will let you specify how you would like it indented via the indent argument. Thus, json.MarshalIndent(data, "", " ") will pretty-print using four spaces for indentation.

回答2:

The accepted answer is great if you have an object you want to turn into JSON. The question also mentions pretty-printing just any JSON string, and that's what I was trying to do. I just wanted to pretty-log some JSON from a POST request (specifically a CSP violation report).

To use MarshalIndent, you would have to Unmarshal that into an object. If you need that, go for it, but I didn't. If you just need to pretty-print a byte array, plain Indent is your friend.

Here's what I ended up with:

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func HandleCSPViolationRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    body := App.MustReadBody(req, w)
    if body == nil {
        return
    }

    var prettyJSON bytes.Buffer
    error := json.Indent(&prettyJSON, body, "", "\t")
    if error != nil {
        log.Println("JSON parse error: ", error)
        App.BadRequest(w)
        return
    }

    log.Println("CSP Violation:", string(prettyJSON.Bytes()))
}

回答3:

For better memory usage, I guess this is better:

var out io.Writer
enc := json.NewEncoder(out)
enc.SetIndent("", "    ")
if err := enc.Encode(data); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

回答4:

Edit Looking back, this is non-idiomatic Go. Small helper functions like this add an extra step of complexity. In general, the Go philosophy prefers to include the 3 simple lines over 1 tricky line.

---

As @robyoder mentioned, json.Indent is the way to go. Thought I'd add this small prettyprint function:

package main

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

//dont do this, see above edit
func prettyprint(b []byte) ([]byte, error) {
    var out bytes.Buffer
    err := json.Indent(&out, b, "", "  ")
    return out.Bytes(), err
}

func main() {
    b := []byte(`{"hello": "123"}`)
    b, _ = prettyprint(b)
    fmt.Printf("%s", b)
}

https://go-sandbox.com/#/R4LWpkkHIN or http://play.golang.org/p/R4LWpkkHIN

回答5:

I was frustrated by the lack of a fast, high quality way to marshal JSON to a colorized string in Go so I wrote my own Marshaller called ColorJSON.

With it, you can easily produce output like this using very little code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/TylerBrock/colorjson"
    "encoding/json"
)

func main() {
    str := `{
      "str": "foo",
      "num": 100,
      "bool": false,
      "null": null,
      "array": ["foo", "bar", "baz"],
      "obj": { "a": 1, "b": 2 }
    }`

    var obj map[string]interface{}
    json.Unmarshal([]byte(str), &obj)

    // Make a custom formatter with indent set
    f := colorjson.NewFormatter()
    f.Indent = 4

    // Marshall the Colorized JSON
    s, _ := f.Marshal(obj)
    fmt.Println(string(s))
}

I'm writing the documentation for it now but I was excited to share my solution.

回答6:

Here's what I use. If it fails to pretty print the JSON it just returns the original string. Useful for printing HTTP responses that should contain JSON.

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "bytes"
)

func jsonPrettyPrint(in string) string {
    var out bytes.Buffer
    err := json.Indent(&out, []byte(in), "", "\t")
    if err != nil {
        return in
    }
    return out.String()
}

回答7:

Here is my solution:

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
)

const (
    empty = ""
    tab   = "\t"
)

func PrettyJson(data interface{}) (string, error) {
    buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
    encoder := json.NewEncoder(buffer)
    encoder.SetIndent(empty, tab)

    err := encoder.Encode(data)
    if err != nil {
       return empty, err
    }
    return buffer.String(), nil
}

回答8:

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"