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# JSON Serialization (v2)
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This module hosts an experimental implementation of v2 `encoding/json`.
The API is unstable and breaking changes will regularly be made.
Do not depend on this in publicly available modules.
This module currently hosts a mirror of `encoding/json/v2`.
Importing this package with the `goexperiment.jsonv2` build tag
(which is enabled by default on Go 1.27) will alias the implementation
in the Go standard library.
Any commits that make breaking API or behavior changes will be marked
with the string "WARNING: " near the top of the commit message.
It is your responsibility to inspect the list of commit changes
when upgrading the module. Not all breaking changes will lead to build failures.
A [proposal to include this module in Go as `encoding/json/v2` and `encoding/json/jsontext`](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71497) has been started on the Go Github project on 2025-01-30. Please provide your feedback there.
## Goals and objectives
* **Mostly backwards compatible:** If possible, v2 should aim to be _mostly_
compatible with v1 in terms of both API and default behavior to ease migration.
For example, the `Marshal` and `Unmarshal` functions are the most widely used
declarations in the v1 package. It seems sensible for equivalent functionality
in v2 to be named the same and have a mostly compatible signature.
Behaviorally, we should aim for 95% to 99% backwards compatibility.
We do not aim for 100% compatibility since we want the freedom to break
certain behaviors that are now considered to have been a mistake.
Options exist that can bring the v2 implementation to 100% compatibility,
but it will not be the default.
* **More flexible:** There is a
[long list of feature requests](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+encoding%2Fjson+in%3Atitle).
We should aim to provide the most flexible features that addresses most usages.
We do not want to over fit the v2 API to handle every possible use case.
Ideally, the features provided should be orthogonal in nature such that
any combination of features results in as few surprising edge cases as possible.
* **More performant:** JSON serialization is widely used and any bit of extra
performance gains will be greatly appreciated. Some rarely used behaviors of v1
may be dropped in favor of better performance. For example,
despite `Encoder` and `Decoder` operating on an `io.Writer` and `io.Reader`,
they do not operate in a truly streaming manner,
leading to a loss in performance. The v2 implementation should aim to be truly
streaming by default (see [#33714](https://golang.org/issue/33714)).
* **Easy to use (hard to misuse):** The v2 API should aim to make
the common case easy and the less common case at least possible.
The API should avoid behavior that goes contrary to user expectation,
which may result in subtle bugs (see [#36225](https://golang.org/issue/36225)).
* **v1 and v2 maintainability:** Since the v1 implementation must stay forever,
it would be beneficial if v1 could be implemented under the hood with v2,
allowing for less maintenance burden in the future. This probably implies that
behavioral changes in v2 relative to v1 need to be exposed as options.
* **Avoid unsafe:** Standard library packages generally avoid the use of
package `unsafe` even if it could provide a performance boost.
We aim to preserve this property.
## Expectations
While this module aims to possibly be the v2 implementation of `encoding/json`,
there is no guarantee that this outcome will occur. As with any major change
to the Go standard library, this will eventually go through the
[Go proposal process](https://github.com/golang/proposal#readme).
At the present moment, this is still in the design and experimentation phase
and is not ready for a formal proposal.
There are several possible outcomes from this experiment:
1. We determine that a v2 `encoding/json` would not provide sufficient benefit
over the existing v1 `encoding/json` package. Thus, we abandon this effort.
2. We propose a v2 `encoding/json` design, but it is rejected in favor of some
other design that is considered superior.
3. We propose a v2 `encoding/json` design, but rather than adding an entirely
new v2 `encoding/json` package, we decide to merge its functionality into
the existing v1 `encoding/json` package.
4. We propose a v2 `encoding/json` design and it is accepted, resulting in
its addition to the standard library.
5. Some other unforeseen outcome (among the infinite number of possibilities).
This module contained the historical prototype of `encoding/json/v2`
before it was formally adopted into the Go standard library
as an experiment in Go 1.25 and then later as a stable API in Go 1.27.
## Development
This module is primarily developed by
This module was primarily developed by
[@dsnet](https://github.com/dsnet),
[@mvdan](https://github.com/mvdan), and
[@johanbrandhorst](https://github.com/johanbrandhorst)
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[@rogpeppe](https://github.com/rogpeppe),
[@ChrisHines](https://github.com/ChrisHines), and
[@rsc](https://github.com/rsc).
During the process to adopt the project into the Go standard library,
API review was provided by
[@aclements](https://github.com/aclements),
[@neild](https://github.com/neild), and
[@prattmic](https://github.com/prattmic).
Discussion about semantics occur semi-regularly, where a
[record of past meetings can be found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rovrOTd-wTawGMPPlPuKhwXaYBg9VszTXR9AQQL5LfI/edit?usp=sharing).
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Some options only affect JSON when decoding,
while others affect JSON while encoding.
## Behavior changes
The v2 `json` package changes the default behavior of `Marshal` and `Unmarshal`
relative to the v1 `json` package to be more sensible.
Some of these behavior changes have options and workarounds to opt into
behavior similar to what v1 provided.
This table shows an overview of the changes:
| v1 | v2 | Details |
| -- | -- | ------- |
| JSON object members are unmarshaled into a Go struct using a **case-insensitive name match**. | JSON object members are unmarshaled into a Go struct using a **case-sensitive name match**. | [CaseSensitivity](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestCaseSensitivity) |
| When marshaling a Go struct, a struct field marked as `omitempty` is omitted if **the field value is an empty Go value**, which is defined as false, 0, a nil pointer, a nil interface value, and any empty array, slice, map, or string. | When marshaling a Go struct, a struct field marked as `omitempty` is omitted if **the field value would encode as an empty JSON value**, which is defined as a JSON null, or an empty JSON string, object, or array. | [OmitEmptyOption](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestOmitEmptyOption) |
| The `string` option **does affect** Go strings and bools. | The `string` option **does not affect** Go strings or bools. | [StringOption](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestStringOption) |
| The `string` option **does not recursively affect** sub-values of the Go field value. | The `string` option **does recursively affect** sub-values of the Go field value. | [StringOption](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestStringOption) |
| The `string` option **sometimes accepts** a JSON null escaped within a JSON string. | The `string` option **never accepts** a JSON null escaped within a JSON string. | [StringOption](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestStringOption) |
| A nil Go slice is marshaled as a **JSON null**. | A nil Go slice is marshaled as an **empty JSON array**. | [NilSlicesAndMaps](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestNilSlicesAndMaps) |
| A nil Go map is marshaled as a **JSON null**. | A nil Go map is marshaled as an **empty JSON object**. | [NilSlicesAndMaps](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestNilSlicesAndMaps) |
| A Go array may be unmarshaled from a **JSON array of any length**. | A Go array must be unmarshaled from a **JSON array of the same length**. | [Arrays](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=Arrays) |
| A Go byte array is represented as a **JSON array of JSON numbers**. | A Go byte array is represented as a **Base64-encoded JSON string**. | [ByteArrays](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestByteArrays) |
| `MarshalJSON` and `UnmarshalJSON` methods declared on a pointer receiver are **inconsistently called**. | `MarshalJSON` and `UnmarshalJSON` methods declared on a pointer receiver are **consistently called**. | [PointerReceiver](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestPointerReceiver) |
| A Go map is marshaled in a **deterministic order**. | A Go map is marshaled in a **non-deterministic order**. | [MapDeterminism](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestMapDeterminism) |
| JSON strings are encoded **with HTML-specific characters being escaped**. | JSON strings are encoded **without any characters being escaped** (unless necessary). | [EscapeHTML](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestEscapeHTML) |
| When marshaling, invalid UTF-8 within a Go string **are silently replaced**. | When marshaling, invalid UTF-8 within a Go string **results in an error**. | [InvalidUTF8](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestInvalidUTF8) |
| When unmarshaling, invalid UTF-8 within a JSON string **are silently replaced**. | When unmarshaling, invalid UTF-8 within a JSON string **results in an error**. | [InvalidUTF8](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestInvalidUTF8) |
| When marshaling, **an error does not occur** if the output JSON value contains objects with duplicate names. | When marshaling, **an error does occur** if the output JSON value contains objects with duplicate names. | [DuplicateNames](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestDuplicateNames) |
| When unmarshaling, **an error does not occur** if the input JSON value contains objects with duplicate names. | When unmarshaling, **an error does occur** if the input JSON value contains objects with duplicate names. | [DuplicateNames](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestDuplicateNames) |
| Unmarshaling a JSON null into a non-empty Go value **inconsistently clears the value or does nothing**. | Unmarshaling a JSON null into a non-empty Go value **always clears the value**. | [MergeNull](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestMergeNull) |
| Unmarshaling a JSON value into a non-empty Go value **follows inconsistent and bizarre behavior**. | Unmarshaling a JSON value into a non-empty Go value **always merges if the input is an object, and otherwise replaces**. | [MergeComposite](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestMergeComposite) |
| A `time.Duration` is represented as a **JSON number containing the decimal number of nanoseconds**. | A `time.Duration` has no default representation in v2 (see [#71631](https://golang.org/issue/71631)) and results in an error. | |
| A Go struct with only unexported fields **can be serialized**. | A Go struct with only unexported fields **cannot be serialized**. | [EmptyStructs](/v1/diff_test.go#:~:text=TestEmptyStructs) |
See [diff_test.go](/v1/diff_test.go) for details about every change.
## Performance
One of the goals of the v2 module is to be more performant than v1,