json-iterator/go is not 100% compatible drop-in replacement of encoding/json

[choleraehyq]

Several functions missing. Like Compact/Indent/HTMLEscape/Decoder.Token etc.

[taowen]

no one is asking for them

[veqryn]

HTML Escaping is supported through the following, I think:

func jsonIteratorMarshalAddNewLineNoEscapeHTML(v interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
	buffer := &bytes.Buffer{}
	encoder := jsonIterator.NewEncoder(buffer)
	encoder.SetEscapeHTML(false)
	err := encoder.Encode(v)
	return buffer.Bytes(), err
}

[carbocation]

The readme says "100% compatibility with standard lib". I think that if this line were removed, this issue could be resolved...

[shatil]

#313 relates to this. jsoniter doesn't support the Umarshaler interface: https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Unmarshaler

[jszwedko]

I agree that the README should be updated to convey which parts are not compatible with encoding/json and not say "100% compatible". There are a couple functions missing from the Decoder type:

        func (dec *Decoder) InputOffset() int64
        func (dec *Decoder) Token() (Token, error)

I had wanted to try out switching to json-iterator/go, but our code currently depends on these functions for one of our packages that does stream processing of documents and I was surprised to find them missing given the claim of drop-in compatibility.

[Dentrax]

no one is asking for them

Any updates on this? I'm asking. 👋 I'm just hit this issue. 🙈

[damnever]

Another issue: #657