Probable Unicode conversion

[rbkumar88]

Is this behaviour expected? If so how to negate that.

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/pquerna/ffjson/ffjson"
)

func main() {
	level:=&Level{Label:"<<< GET"}
	testFfjson(level)
}
type Level struct {
	Label      string
}
func testFfjson(m interface{}) {
	b,err:= ffjson.Marshal(&m)
	if err!=nil{
		fmt.Printf("error in ffjson marshal for %v : %v",m,err)
		return 
	}
	fmt.Printf("%s\n", b)
}

Output:

{"Label":"\u003c\u003c\u003c GET"}

[erikdubbelboer]

Yes this is expected. This is exactly the same as with the encoding/json package: https://play.golang.org/p/IHXPJmjh_bM
Both packages do this because it's perfectly valid JSON and JSON is mostly used inside a web context where < might cause issues with HTML tags.

And just like with encoding/json you can use the Encoder.SetEscapeHTML(false) to turn this off: https://play.golang.org/p/1sGNH1ae6zm

[pquerna]

@erikdubbelboer Thank you for explaining!