Pretty Printing JSON Records

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How to pretty print JSON records

This lesson illustrates how to pretty print JSON records, which means printing JSON records in a pleasant and readable format without knowing the format of the Go structure that holds the JSON records. As there exist two ways to read JSON records, individually and as a stream, there exist two ways to pretty print JSON data: as single JSON records and as a stream. Therefore, we are going to implement two separate functions named prettyPrint() and JSONstream(), respectively.

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The implementation of the prettyPrint() function is the following:

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Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Pretty Printing JSON Records

How to pretty print JSON records

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