kenxjy/jsontime

Sets formatting for datetime in JSON, compatible with std json library

jsontime

A wrapper for the standard library time.Time type that allows you to easily set formatting for marshaling and unmarshaling to JSON.

Usage

Converting to JSON

type SampleTime struct {
	Time JsonTime `json:"time"`
}

sampleTime := SampleTime{Time: JsonTime(time.Now())}

jsonBody, err := json.Marshal(sampleTime)
fmt.Println(string(jsonBody)) // {"time":"2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z"}

Converting from JSON

type SampleTime struct {
	Time JsonTime `json:"time"`
}

var sampleTime SampleTime

// JSON received from some API
jsonBody := []byte(`{"time": "2023-05-29T14:40:42.057Z"}`)
json.Unmarshal(jsonBody, &sampleTime)