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?
>>
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