How to stop json.Marshal from escaping < and>?

Question

package main

import \"fmt\"
import \"encoding/json\"

type Track struct {
    XmlRequest string `json:\"xmlRequest\"`
}

func main() {
    message := new(Track)
            


        

Answer 1

Another way to solve the problem is to replace those escaped characters in json.RawMessage into just valid UTF-8 characters, after the json.Marshal() call.

It will work as well for any letters other than < and >. (I used to do this to make non-English letters to be human readable in JSON :D)

func _UnescapeUnicodeCharactersInJSON(_jsonRaw json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
    str, err := strconv.Unquote(strings.Replace(strconv.Quote(string(_jsonRaw)), `\\u`, `\u`, -1))
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    return []byte(str), nil
}

func main() {
    // Both are valid JSON.
    var jsonRawEscaped json.RawMessage   // json raw with escaped unicode chars
    var jsonRawUnescaped json.RawMessage // json raw with unescaped unicode chars

    // '\u263a' == '☺'
    jsonRawEscaped = []byte(`{"HelloWorld": "\uC548\uB155, \uC138\uC0C1(\u4E16\u4E0A). \u263a"}`) // "\\u263a"
    jsonRawUnescaped, _ = _UnescapeUnicodeCharactersInJSON(jsonRawEscaped)                        // "☺"

    fmt.Println(string(jsonRawEscaped))   // {"HelloWorld": "\uC548\uB155, \uC138\uC0C1(\u4E16\u4E0A). \u263a"}
    fmt.Println(string(jsonRawUnescaped)) // {"HelloWorld": "안녕, 세상(世上). ☺"}
}

https://play.golang.org/p/pUsrzrrcDG-

I hope this helps someone.