Documented here: https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Marshal
There is also a description of how to avoid it.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:39 PM Rich <rma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I have an application that I wrote that uses JSON for the config file.
> The application is a chatbot I use internally and allows users to run linux
> commands to get information both locally and via ssh. The chatbot interface
> uses basic html to render the output so 90% of the time I want to have the
> output be surrounded by "<pre>" and "</pre>". But not every one running the
> application may want this, their chatbot may run a commands that that uses
> other HTML formatting. So I created a directive in the config file allowing
> the user to configure this:
>
> "HTMLFormat": {
> "Start": "<pre>",
> "Finish": "</pre>"
> }
>
> The problem is that this config file also contains a password -- so I
> allow the user to put in clear text the password, and on restart the
> password gets encrypted, and then I do a simple json.Marshal and rewrite
> the config with the encrypted password:
>
> file, err := json.MarshalIndent(config, "", " ")
> errorHandle(err, "Json Marshal", false)
> err = ioutil.WriteFile(cFile, file, 0644)
> errorHandle(err, "Write Config", false)
>
> In the above, 'config' is the struct that contains all the directive,
> 'cFile' is the config file being written. When the file gets written it
> looks like this:
> has toIn the json there is a directive for the application to add html
> formatting to the start of its output.
>
> "HTMLFormat": {
> "Start": "\u003cpre\u003e",
> "Finish": "\u003e\/pre\u003e"
> }
>
> Any idea why it's doing this?
>
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