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JSON Marshaling in Go With Tags Omitempty and Custom Types
A tour of encoding/json in Go: struct tags, omitempty and omitzero, nil versus empty, time and bytes, int64 precision, HTML escaping and measured speed.
14 min read
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Standard Library
The batteries that ship with Go. Check here before you add a dependency, because the answer is often already in the box.
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JSON v2 in Go and What Changes for Your Existing Code
What Go's experimental encoding/json/v2 changes: case-sensitive keys, rejected duplicates, empty arrays for nil slices, Duration formats. v1 unchanged.
8 min read
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Tell Null Missing and Zero Apart in Go JSON Decoding
Tell absent, null and zero apart when decoding JSON in Go: why pointers fail, what RawMessage and a generic Optional give you, and omitzero on output.
10 min read
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