i've this template:
var ListTemplate = `
{
"resources": [
{{ StringsJoin . ", " }}
]
}
`
rendered with:
JoinFunc := template.FuncMap{"StringsJoin": strings.Join}
tmpl := template.Must(template.New("").Funcs(JoinFunc).Parse(ListTemplate))
if i send it to a http.ResponseWriter the output text is escaped.
var list []string
tmpl.Execute(w, list)
how can i write a json this way?
You shouldn't use Go's template engine (neither text/template
nor html/template
) to generate JSON output, as the template engine has no knowledge of JSON syntax and rules (escaping).
Instead use the encoding/json
package to generate JSON. You may use json.Encoder
to write / stream the response directly to an io.Writer
, such as http.ResponseWriter
.
Example:
type Output struct {
Resources []string `json:"resources"`
}
obj := Output{
Resources: []string{"r1", "r2"},
}
enc := json.NewEncoder(w)
if err := enc.Encode(obj); err != nil {
// Handle error
fmt.Println(err)
}
Outputs (try it on the Go Playground):
{"resources":["r1","r2"]}