# json

**Repository Path**: mirrors_alicebob/json

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: json
- **Description**: Alternative Go JSON parser
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-31

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

Alternative Go JSON parser

# features

Supported types to unmarshal into:
    
 * int
 * float64
 * string
 * bool
 * RawMessage
 * structs made of all of these
 * slices made of all of these
 * pointers to all of these
 * map[string]{all of these}

Other basic types would be easy to add; I have not needed them yet. Note that the empty interface is not supported.

# vs. encoding/json

 * this works on a string, not a []byte
 * encoding/json has nice error messages
 * encoding/json can decode to the empty interface
 * encoding/json supports the Unmarshaler interface

# performance

For the use case I'm mostly interested in (parsing openRTB requests) I get
twice the performance and half the allocs:
<pre>
BenchmarkRTB-4       	   50000	     29093 ns/op	    2536 B/op	      39 allocs/op
BenchmarkRTBThem-4   	   20000	     63858 ns/op	    3888 B/op	      87 allocs/op
</pre>

Similar for parsing large ElasticSearch bulk results:
<pre>
BenchmarkESbulk-4    	    3000	    473237 ns/op	  177979 B/op	     830 allocs/op
BenchmarkESbulkThem-4	    2000	   1055068 ns/op	  200884 B/op	    2283 allocs/op
</pre>

# status

Works fine for us.

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