go-codec vs gabs

go-codec

idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go] (by ugorji)

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gabs

For parsing, creating and editing unknown or dynamic JSON in Go (by Jeffail)

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go-codec		gabs
	Project
1	Mentions	8
1,819	Stars	3,374
-	Growth	-
6.5	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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go-codec

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-codec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.

Wasm difficulties in Rust, Haskell, and Go
9 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2022

go-codec depends on reflect

gabs

Posts with mentions or reviews of gabs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.

6 🔥 Awesome Golang packages (web devs)
6 projects | dev.to | 4 Dec 2023

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Jeffail/gabs
Ask HN: What are some Golang tools you can't live without?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

gabs [0]. It helps with dealing with dynamic JSONs with unknown structures.
[0]: https://github.com/Jeffail/gabs
High-performance JSON parsing in Go
4 projects | /r/golang | 8 Mar 2023

Nice article, I've often found gabs very useful for parsing structless/dynamic json
Any way to convert unknown/dynamic json to generic object structure
3 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023
Polygon: Json Database System designed to run on small servers (as low as 16MB) and still be fast and flexible.
7 projects | /r/golang | 29 Jan 2023

Gabs v2 (github.com/Jeffail/gabs/v2 ), this just makes working with interfaces more easier.
Wasm difficulties in Rust, Haskell, and Go
9 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2022

gabs depends on reflect
Is there a way to parse unstructured data?
6 projects | /r/golang | 27 Nov 2022

This might be of interest: https://github.com/Jeffail/gabs
Jumping execution of function
1 project | /r/golang | 18 May 2022

Hi there, I'm trying to develop a service that picks from a MariaDB database entries with two fields: id (int) and field2(json). I've managed to read the json field by using gabs and with the code arranged like this:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-codec and gabs you can also consider the following projects:

jsoniter - A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json"

wasi-sockets - WASI API proposal for managing sockets

colfer - binary serialization format

PolygonDB - PolygonDB is an alternative to MongoDB that provides a developer-friendly experience and less resources hungry.

php_session_decoder - PHP session encoder/decoder written in Go

GJSON - Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go

csvutil - csvutil provides fast and idiomatic mapping between CSV and Go (golang) values.

jsonparser - One of the fastest alternative JSON parser for Go that does not require schema

cbor - CBOR codec (RFC 8949) with CBOR tags, Go struct tags (toarray, keyasint, omitempty), float64/32/16, big.Int, and fuzz tested billions of execs.

json - A simple dynamic JSON parser.

goprotobuf - Go support for Google's protocol buffers

ffjson - faster JSON serialization for Go