fastjson VS easyjson

I’ve used fastjson when unmarshalling to Structs is inconvenient. https://github.com/valyala/fastjson

Interesting approach, even though reflection support is supposed to be landing soon, this would be really really useful when using TinyGo. (Fro example, writing web backend serverless functions with Fermyon’s Spin framework for WASM that needs to return JSON). Do you have any benchmarks on how it performs vs stdlib’s encoding/json and/or something like fastjson?

It relies heavily on bytes.IndexOf for which Go provides SIMD optimizations transparently. However, it has some correctness issues when parsing malformed json that might need to be addressed. Generally it is recommended to be used with trusted json documents for internal services and may require further testing before being used to parse arbitrary json documents.

Try fastjson library. It allows you to grab deeply nested json objects without marshalling the entire json.

Como herramientas te recomiendo: FastJson https://github.com/valyala/fastjson : Si necesitas leer jsons Testify https://github.com/stretchr/testify : Para mockear y testear

In Go if I need to extract just a few fields from a large JSON document it's hard to beat https://github.com/valyala/fastjson

Another option is to use what I like to call "Lazy" decoders, like https://github.com/valyala/fastjson which will work with TinyGo, but doesn't have the same type of API as the standard lib (or alternatives) in terms of Marshaling and Unmarshalling. Instead you "Parse" a JSON object, and use Getters to access the types you want.

Compile time means you catch issues at... well compile time. It also means that the code is optimized. You can look at the performance different between encoding/json and easyjson for why you may desire that.

easyjson produced an empty file

There is https://github.com/mailru/easyjson out there if you are absolutely sure that serialization is the bottleneck. Otherwise I'd go for stdlib.

https://github.com/mailru/easyjson fast JSON (de)serializer which go generates code instead of using reflect at runtime.

If you know the schema of the JSON ahead of time and you need to parse the whole object, I would recommend https://github.com/mailru/easyjson as that will likely give you the fastest result. This works in almost all use cases, and easy to use features such as string interning can save you a lot of time on memory allocation if you parse a lot of JSON objects with identical values.

What to use Easyjson is about the top of the pack and it's straightforward. The downside of efficient tools is that they use code generation to create the code required to turn your structs into json to minimise allocations. This is a manual build step which is annoying. Interestingly json-iterator also uses reflection but it's significantly faster. I suspect black magic.

I'm looking for something similar to https://github.com/mailru/easyjson where one can generate a concrete JSON parser for some types.

Бібліотека easyjson теж для серіалізації працює через додатковий код замість використання рефлексії. Але після внесення в easyjson одної з оптимізацій, час від часу почали отримувати зламаний JSON, ось приклад тесту який покаже помилку.