Thanks!! Totally missed that one. Switched to from json.Marshal to json.Encode: jsonEnc:=json.NewEncoder(file) jsonEnc.SetIndent("", tab) jsonEnc.SetEscapeHTML(false)
Works great!! On Monday, August 12, 2019 at 2:18:02 PM UTC-4, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: > > 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 <javascript:>> > 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? >> >> -- >> 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 golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8a7a344a-55aa-468a-8346-c1db036d8372%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8a7a344a-55aa-468a-8346-c1db036d8372%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > J. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e269493e-e665-4dee-b7a2-63464c3fd1e1%40googlegroups.com.