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Programming language: Go
License: MIT License
Tags: Json    
Latest version: v1.0.1

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README

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Client-customizable JSON formats for dynamic APIs.

Introduction

dynjson allow APIs to return only fields selected by the API client:

GET https://api.example.com/v1/foos
[{"id":1,foo":1,"bar":2,"baz":3}]

GET https://api.example.com/v1/foos?select=foo
[{"foo":1}]

GET https://api.example.com/v1/foos/1?select=foo
{"foo":1}

dynjson mimicks the original struct using the original types and json tags. The field order is the same as the select parameters.

Installation

go get github.com/cocoonspace/dynjson

Examples

type APIResult struct {
    Foo int     `json:"foo"`
    Bar string  `json:"bar"`
}

f := dynjson.NewFormatter()

res := &APIResult{Foo:1, Bar:"bar"}
o, err := f.Format(res, dynjson.FieldsFromRequest(r))
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
err = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(o) // {"foo": 1}

With struct fields:

type APIResult struct {
    Foo int          `json:"foo"`
    Bar APIIncluded  `json:"bar"`
}

type APIIncluded struct {
    BarFoo int    `json:"barfoo"`
    BarBar string `json:"barbar"`
}

f := dynjson.NewFormatter()

res := &APIResult{Foo: 1, Bar: APIIncluded{BarFoo:1, BarBar: "bar"}}
o, err := f.Format(res, []string{"foo", "bar.barfoo"})
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
err = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(o) // {"foo": 1, "bar":{"barfoo": 1}}

With slices:

type APIResult struct {
    Foo int     `json:"foo"`
    Bar string  `json:"bar"`
}

f := dynjson.NewFormatter()

res := []APIResult{{Foo: 1, Bar: "bar"}}
o, err := f.Format(res, []string{"foo"})
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
err = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(o) // [{"foo": 1}]
type APIResult struct {
    Foo int        `json:"foo"`
    Bar []APIItem  `json:"bar"`
}

type APIItem struct {
    BarFoo int    `json:"barfoo"`
    BarBar string `json:"barbar"`
}

f := dynjson.NewFormatter()

res := &APIResult{Foo: 1, Bar: []APIItem{{BarFoo: 1, BarBar: "bar"}}}
o, err := f.Format(res, []string{"foo", "bar.barfoo"})
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
err = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(o) // {"foo": 1, "bar":[{"barfoo": 1}]}

Limitations

  • Anonymous fields without a json tag (embedded by the Go JSON encoder in the enclosing struct) are not supported,
  • Maps are copied as is, you cannot filter map contents using map_field_name.map_key.

Performance impact

BenchmarkFormat_Fields
BenchmarkFormat_Fields-8         2466639           480 ns/op         184 B/op          7 allocs/op
BenchmarkFormat_NoFields
BenchmarkFormat_NoFields-8       5255031           232 ns/op          32 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkRawJSON
BenchmarkRawJSON-8               5351313           223 ns/op          32 B/op          1 allocs/op

Contribution guidelines

Contributions are welcome, as long as:

  • unit tests & comments are included,
  • no external package is used.

License

MIT - See LICENSE


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the dynjson README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.