On 26 December 2016 at 07:23, JohnGB <jgbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > It *should* have a JSON body, but in this particular case I can't be sure > that it will, as I'm trying to log requests when there are errors, which are > quite often errors in the request. So although in some cases it is decoded > later in the handler chain, I need to be able to log the string in a human > readable form before any possible decoding. > > If it's unescaped as part of json.Unmarshal(), is there an exposed function > in the encoding/json package which only unescapes a string? I've tried > looking, but I can't find anything that I can call directly.
If you've got a JSON string, then unmarshaling into a string should work. https://play.golang.org/p/AThEIUZnX4 > > On Sunday, 25 December 2016 06:14:22 UTC+1, Matt Harden wrote: >> >> If it has a JSON body, are you using encoding/json to parse / decode it? >> That will handle the unescaping for you. >> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 4:54 PM JohnGB <jgbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have an application where I am processing a HTTP request with a JSON >>> body. However, the JSON in the body has been unicode escaped, so instead of >>> `wasn't`, I get `wasn\u0027t`. >>> >>> What is the simplest way to unescape this text back to utf8 encoded text. >>> i.e. convert `wasn\u0027t` to `wasn't`. Please note that I'm only using >>> this as an example, but I'd like all unicode escaped characters to be >>> converted to their utf8 equivalents. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "golang-nuts" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
