Pretty JSON retrieved from response in GoLang

Question

I retrieve JSON as GET response from and endpoint

response, _ := http.Get("https://website-returning-json-value.com") data, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body) w.Write(data)

It returns me a JSON value, which is OK, but it is very ugly (no indents etc.). I would like to make it pretty. I've read that there is util function like MarshalIndent which does the job, but this works for JSON object (?) and ReadAll function returns []byte, so it does not work. I read the documentation regarding encoding/json package but there's a lot of information and I got a little bit stuck/confused.

As far as I understand it should be done, I should get []byte via ReadAll function -> convert it to the JSON -> prettify it -> turn to []byte again.

There is no need to do that, unmarshal the json into structs and then marshal it if you want. — Himanshu
– Himanshu, Commented Oct 10, 2018 at 13:09

icza · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-10 13:15:44Z

There is json.Indent() for this purpose. Example using it:

src := []byte(`{"foo":"bar","x":1}`) dst := &bytes.Buffer{} if err := json.Indent(dst, src, "", " "); err != nil { panic(err) } fmt.Println(dst.String())

Output (try it on the Go Playground):

{ "foo": "bar", "x": 1 }

But indentation is just for human eyes, it carries the same information, and libraries don't need indented JSON.

Also see: Is there a jq wrapper for golang that can produce human readable JSON output?

Thank you, working as expected. I know it might be useless in most cases, but it is for demo purposes and I wanted to look it human readable ;) Thanks again!

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