jsonutil

jsonutil Package

Compact JSON marshaling utilities that avoid HTML escaping for safe expression handling.

Overview

The jsonutil package provides a thin wrapper around Go's standard encoding/json encoder to produce compact JSON output without HTML escaping. This is essential for serializing GitHub Actions expressions (e.g. ${{ env.X && env.Y }}) that contain characters such as &, <, and > which the standard json.Marshal would otherwise encode as \u0026, \u003c, and \u003e.

Public API

Functions

Usage Examples

import "github.com/github/gh-aw/pkg/jsonutil"

data := map[string]string{
    "expr": "${{ env.MCP_ENV == 'staging' && env.MCP_URL_STAGING || env.MCP_URL_PROD }}",
}

result, err := jsonutil.MarshalCompactNoHTMLEscape(data)
if err != nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal: %w", err)
}
// result: {"expr":"${{ env.MCP_ENV == 'staging' && env.MCP_URL_STAGING || env.MCP_URL_PROD }}"}
// Note: '&&' and '||' are preserved — not escaped to \u0026\u0026 or \u007c\u007c

Dependencies

Internal:

• github.com/github/gh-aw/pkg/logger — package-scoped logger used for marshal error diagnostics

Design Notes

• Uses json.Encoder with SetEscapeHTML(false) rather than json.Marshal to suppress HTML escaping.
• The trailing newline that json.Encoder.Encode appends is trimmed with strings.TrimSuffix so the result is consistent with json.Marshal output.
• The package has no external dependencies beyond the Go standard library.

This specification is automatically maintained by the spec-extractor workflow.