Explain the use of Go's JSON encoding and decoding for data serialization?

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Jayant Kumar · Accepted Answer

In Go, the encoding/json package provides support for encoding Go data structures into JSON format and decoding JSON data into Go data structures. JSON is a widely used format for data serialization and exchange, and is supported by many programming languages and web APIs.
Here is an example of encoding a Go data structure into JSON:
import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
)

type Person struct {
    Name string `json:"name"`
    Age  int    `json:"age"`
}

func main() {
    p := Person{Name: "John Doe", Age: 42}
    b, err := json.Marshal(p)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error:", err)
    }
    fmt.Println(string(b)) // prints {"name":"John Doe","age":42}
}

In this example, we define a Go data structure called Person with two fields: Name and Age. We use struct tags to specify the corresponding JSON field names for each field. Then we create an instance of the Person struct, and use the json.Marshal() function to encode it into a JSON byte slice.
Here is an example of decoding a JSON byte slice into a Go data structure:
import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
)

type Person struct {
    Name string `json:"name"`
    Age  int    `json:"age"`
}

func main() {
    b := []byte(`{"name":"John Doe","age":42}`)
    var p Person
    err := json.Unmarshal(b, &#x26;p)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error:", err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("%#v
", p) // prints main.Person{Name:"John Doe", Age:42}
}

In this example, we define the same Person struct as before, and create a JSON byte slice representing a Person object. Then we use the json.Unmarshal() function to decode the JSON byte slice into a Person struct.
The encoding/json package supports many other features for customizing JSON encoding and decoding, such as handling embedded structs, ignoring empty fields, and customizing field names and types.

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