jsontools.go

/*
Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

package utils

import (
	"bytes"
	"unicode"

	"github.com/ghodss/yaml"
)

// ToJSON converts a single YAML document into a JSON document
// or returns an error. If the document appears to be JSON the
// YAML decoding path is not used (so that error messages are
// JSON specific).
// Creds to: k8s.io for the code
func ToJSON(data []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	if hasJSONPrefix(data) {
		return data, nil
	}
	return yaml.YAMLToJSON(data)
}

var jsonPrefix = []byte("{")

// hasJSONPrefix returns true if the provided buffer appears to start with
// a JSON open brace.
func hasJSONPrefix(buf []byte) bool {
	return hasPrefix(buf, jsonPrefix)
}

// Return true if the first non-whitespace bytes in buf is
// prefix.
func hasPrefix(buf []byte, prefix []byte) bool {
	trim := bytes.TrimLeftFunc(buf, unicode.IsSpace)
	return bytes.HasPrefix(trim, prefix)
}