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125 lines
3.1 KiB
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# Pretty
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[](https://travis-ci.org/tidwall/prettty)
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[](http://gocover.io/github.com/tidwall/pretty)
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[](https://godoc.org/github.com/tidwall/pretty)
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Pretty is a Go package that provides [fast](#performance) methods for formatting JSON for human readability, or to compact JSON for smaller payloads.
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Getting Started
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===============
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## Installing
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To start using Pretty, install Go and run `go get`:
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```sh
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$ go get -u github.com/tidwall/pretty
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```
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This will retrieve the library.
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## Pretty
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Using this example:
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```json
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{"name": {"first":"Tom","last":"Anderson"}, "age":37,
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"children": ["Sara","Alex","Jack"],
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"fav.movie": "Deer Hunter", "friends": [
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{"first": "Janet", "last": "Murphy", "age": 44}
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]}
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```
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The following code:
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```go
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result = pretty.Pretty(example)
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```
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Will format the json to:
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```json
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{
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"name": {
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"first": "Tom",
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"last": "Anderson"
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},
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"age": 37,
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"children": ["Sara", "Alex", "Jack"],
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"fav.movie": "Deer Hunter",
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"friends": [
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{
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"first": "Janet",
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"last": "Murphy",
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"age": 44
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}
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]
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}
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```
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## Color
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Color will colorize the json for outputing to the screen.
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```json
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result = pretty.Color(json, nil)
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```
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Will add color to the result for printing to the terminal.
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The second param is used for a customizing the style, and passing nil will use the default `pretty.TerminalStyle`.
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## Ugly
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The following code:
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```go
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result = pretty.Ugly(example)
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```
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Will format the json to:
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```json
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{"name":{"first":"Tom","last":"Anderson"},"age":37,"children":["Sara","Alex","Jack"],"fav.movie":"Deer Hunter","friends":[{"first":"Janet","last":"Murphy","age":44}]}```
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```
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## Customized output
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There's a `PrettyOptions(json, opts)` function which allows for customizing the output with the following options:
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```go
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type Options struct {
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// Width is an max column width for single line arrays
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// Default is 80
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Width int
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// Prefix is a prefix for all lines
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// Default is an empty string
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Prefix string
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// Indent is the nested indentation
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// Default is two spaces
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Indent string
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// SortKeys will sort the keys alphabetically
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// Default is false
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SortKeys bool
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}
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```
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## Performance
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Benchmarks of Pretty alongside the builtin `encoding/json` Indent/Compact methods.
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```
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BenchmarkPretty-8 1000000 1283 ns/op 720 B/op 2 allocs/op
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BenchmarkUgly-8 3000000 426 ns/op 240 B/op 1 allocs/op
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BenchmarkUglyInPlace-8 5000000 340 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
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BenchmarkJSONIndent-8 300000 4628 ns/op 1069 B/op 4 allocs/op
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BenchmarkJSONCompact-8 1000000 2469 ns/op 758 B/op 4 allocs/op
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```
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*These benchmarks were run on a MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 using Go 1.7.*
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## Contact
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Josh Baker [@tidwall](http://twitter.com/tidwall)
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## License
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Pretty source code is available under the MIT [License](/LICENSE).
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