Posting body as JSON escapes the content

[jryd]

I am using this library to post a collection of products to an API.

Some of the names of the products have special characters (e.g '&') and these are escaped using the below request:

_, err := client.R().SetHeader("Content-Type", "application/json").
	SetBody(product).
	Post("API URL")

Example:

Product name is Super Awesome & Fun

When posted with the above example request, it is sent as Super Awesome \u0026 Fun.

Looking at this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39079238/1739852 it looks like it is possible to disable the HTML escaping on the encoder:

e.g

enc := json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout)
enc.SetEscapeHTML(false)

Would it be possible to add this as a configuration option to disable the escaping of HTML?

[jeevatkm]

@jryd Sure, will add configuration to disable the escaping of HTML on JSON encoder/content-type.

[jeevatkm]

@jryd I have added an option SetJSONEscapeHTML to disable HTML escape. Could you please give it a try on branch json-html-escape-opt and let me know? Then I will merge it master. Will be released in v1.9.0.

[jeevatkm]

Making v1.9.0 release.

[jryd]

@jeevatkm sorry for the late reply. Have tried using this in the v1.9.0 release and it looks like it is working well!

[jeevatkm]

@jryd No worries, Thanks for the confirmation.