fixjson

fixjson is a Go package that converts broken, nonstandard or nonofficial format (e.g. jsonc) to standard json. As an author of this package, I kindly ask you, stop doing that shit and use standard json whenever possible.

The features of the package are:

• remove comments, single line (// text) or multiline (/* text */)
• remove trailing commas, from arrays and objects
• add missing commas after string literals at the end of a line in arrays and objects
• remove unnecessary and invalid escape character of single quotes (')
• escape quotes " in string literals, if they are placed not at the end of a line
• fixes html encoded quotes in json
• replace new line (\n) characters in string literals with \\ following by n
• replace tabs (\t) characters with \\ following by t

{
  /* Example block                                  // multiline comment
   comment */
  "propertyName": {
    "name": "No, you can\'t do that in json",       // invalid escape character
    "value": 5432, // counter                       // inline comment           
    "username": "josh"                              // missing comma
    "password": "pass123",                          // trailing comma
  },

  "title": "Hello                                   // new line in string literal
    World",
}

Getting Started

Installing

$ go get -u github.com/astappiev/fixjson

This will retrieve the library.

Example

There's a provided function fixjson.ToJSON, which does the conversion.

data := `
{
  /* Example block
   comment */
  "propertyName": {
    "name": "No, you can\'t do that in json",
    "value": 5432, // counter   
    "username": "josh"
    "password": "pass123",
  },

  "title": "Hello
    World",
}
`

err := json.Unmarshal(fixjson.ToJSON(data), &config)