Package encode serializes and deserializes values crossing system boundaries such as databases, queues, caches, and RPC payloads.
The package supports two main modes:
- Gob + Base64 encoding for arbitrary Go values
- JSON + Base64 encoding for interoperable text-based payloads
Caveats:
- Decoding reads a single encoded value; any trailing bytes are ignored.
- The reader- and buffer-based decoders do not bound their input. When decoding from an untrusted source, wrap the reader with io.LimitReader.
- Gob is not designed to decode adversarial input; prefer the JSON family (Serialize/Deserialize) for untrusted, interoperable payloads.
- The JSON encoding appends a trailing newline, which is included in the encoded output.
- The same payload shape moves between a database, a queue, and a cache.
- You want one encoding decision rather than one per call site.
type TestData struct {
Alpha string
Beta int
}
data := &TestData{Alpha: "test_string", Beta: -9876}
v, err := encode.Encode(data)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(v)Full source is in example_encode_test.go. More runnable examples are on pkg.go.dev.
This package reaches no external module: it uses only the Go standard library.