In this source code example, we show how to convert Struct to JSON in Golang.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data interchange format.

In Golang, the encoding/json package implements the encoding and decoding of JSON.

Go - Convert Struct to JSON

In the example, we transform a Go struct into JSON format:

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "log"
)

type Employee struct {
    Id         int
    FirstName       string
    LastName string
    Email string
}

func main() {

    e1 := Employee{1, "John", "Cena", "john@gmail.com"}

    json_data, err := json.Marshal(e1)

    if err != nil {

        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(json_data))
}

Output:

{"Id":1,"FirstName":"John","LastName":"Cena","Email":"john@gmail.com"}

We declare the Employee struct:

type Employee struct {
    Id         int
    FirstName       string
    LastName string
    Email string
}

We create the struct instance:

    e1 := Employee{1, "John", "Cena", "john@gmail.com"}

We encode the u1 struct into JSON with Marshal.

json_data, err := json.Marshal(e1)

Since json_data is a byte array, we convert it to a string with the string function:

fmt.Println(string(json_data))