Copied from yosuke-furukawa's amazing json5 github project. It isn't forked because the repo containes over 38 Megabytes of binary data in it's history.
JSON5 is Yet another JSON.
$ json5 -c path/to/test.json5 # output stdout
$ json5 -c path/to/test.json5 -o path/to/test.json # output path/to/test.json
$ go get github.com/alfatraining/json5
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"github.com/alfatraining/json5/encoding/json5"
"os"
)
func main() {
var data interface{}
dec := json5.NewDecoder(os.Stdin)
err := dec.Decode(&data)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
b, err := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", " ")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println(string(b))
}// This is json5 demo
// json5 can write comment in your json
{
key : "Key does not need double quote",
// json specific
"of" : "course we can use json as json5",
trailing : "trailing comma is ok",
}$ json5 -c example.json5
# output
#{
# "key": "Key does not need double quote",
# "of": "course we can use json as json5",
# "trailing": "trailing comma is ok"
#}
- block comment
- multiline string
- hexadecimal notation