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Pretty
Pretty is a Go package that provides fast methods for formatting JSON for human readability, or to compact JSON for smaller payloads.
Getting Started
Installing
To start using Pretty, install Go and run go get
:
$ go get -u github.com/tidwall/pretty
This will retrieve the library.
Pretty
Using this example:
{"name": {"first":"Tom","last":"Anderson"}, "age":37,
"children": ["Sara","Alex","Jack"],
"fav.movie": "Deer Hunter", "friends": [
{"first": "Janet", "last": "Murphy", "age": 44}
]}
The following code:
result = pretty.Pretty(example)
Will format the json to:
{
"name": {
"first": "Tom",
"last": "Anderson"
},
"age": 37,
"children": ["Sara", "Alex", "Jack"],
"fav.movie": "Deer Hunter",
"friends": [
{
"first": "Janet",
"last": "Murphy",
"age": 44
}
]
}
Color
Color will colorize the json for outputing to the screen.
result = pretty.Color(json, nil)
Will add color to the result for printing to the terminal.
The second param is used for a customizing the style, and passing nil will use the default pretty.TerminalStyle
.
Ugly
The following code:
result = pretty.Ugly(example)
Will format the json to:
{"name":{"first":"Tom","last":"Anderson"},"age":37,"children":["Sara","Alex","Jack"],"fav.movie":"Deer Hunter","friends":[{"first":"Janet","last":"Murphy","age":44}]}```
Customized output
There's a PrettyOptions(json, opts)
function which allows for customizing the output with the following options:
type Options struct {
// Width is an max column width for single line arrays
// Default is 80
Width int
// Prefix is a prefix for all lines
// Default is an empty string
Prefix string
// Indent is the nested indentation
// Default is two spaces
Indent string
// SortKeys will sort the keys alphabetically
// Default is false
SortKeys bool
}
Performance
Benchmarks of Pretty alongside the builtin encoding/json
Indent/Compact methods.
BenchmarkPretty-16 1000000 1034 ns/op 720 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkPrettySortKeys-16 586797 1983 ns/op 2848 B/op 14 allocs/op
BenchmarkUgly-16 4652365 254 ns/op 240 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkUglyInPlace-16 6481233 183 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONIndent-16 450654 2687 ns/op 1221 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONCompact-16 685111 1699 ns/op 442 B/op 0 allocs/op
These benchmarks were run on a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9.
Contact
Josh Baker @tidwall
License
Pretty source code is available under the MIT License.