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encoding/json: RawMessage.MarshalJSON should error if it is nil #22686

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qJkee opened this issue Nov 13, 2017 · 5 comments
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encoding/json: RawMessage.MarshalJSON should error if it is nil #22686

qJkee opened this issue Nov 13, 2017 · 5 comments
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qJkee commented Nov 13, 2017 •
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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.9.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

What did you do?

Just opened source code :D

What did you see instead?

Open encoding/json/stream.go at 250th line.
In function, MarshalJSON

func (m RawMessage) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	if m == nil {
		return []byte("null"), nil
	}
	return m, nil
}

That means, that error always will be nil. But i think that if m == nil should return error that raw message is empty(or nill).
In that case, we have to ignore returned error(it's always nill), and check returned array for
if arr == []byte("null")
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mvdan commented Nov 13, 2017

What makes you think that m == nil should error? Note that the definition is type RawMessage []byte, and it's very common for uses of []byte to also accept nil without any errors.

This seems more like a question than a bug report to me, unless there is an actual problem you ran into because of this behavior.

@mvdan mvdan added the WaitingForInfo Issue is not actionable because of missing required information, which needs to be provided. label Nov 13, 2017
@mvdan mvdan changed the title encoding/json encoding/json: RawMessage.MarshalJSON should error if it is nil Nov 13, 2017
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qJkee commented Nov 13, 2017

So, if you always return nill error, maybe make func return only []byte to avoid unnecessary error checking?

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mvdan commented Nov 13, 2017

Then it wouldn't implement the interface: https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Marshaler

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qJkee commented Nov 13, 2017

As a way, we can return m, nill without checks, and don't allocate a new byte array with "null" word inside. It's will be strange, if I will be sure that my array is not empty, but it will contain "null" word instead of my data.

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mvdan commented Nov 13, 2017

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

I still don't see a bug here, so I'm closing this. The issue tracker is not used for questions and discussion, so I suggest you take this to https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Questions.

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