Disable HTML escaping in JSON Logger

Author: treuherz

log/json_logger.go

@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ func (l *jsonLogger) Log(keyvals ...interface{}) error {
 		}
 		merge(m, k, v)
 	}
-	return json.NewEncoder(l.Writer).Encode(m)
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(l.Writer)
+	enc.SetEscapeHTML(false)
+	return enc.Encode(m)
 }
 
 func merge(dst map[string]interface{}, k, v interface{}) {

log/json_logger_test.go

@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ func TestJSONLoggerNilErrorValue(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestJSONLoggerNoHTMLEscape(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
+	logger := log.NewJSONLogger(buf)
+	if err := logger.Log("k", "<&>"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if want, have := `{"k":"<&>"}`+"\n", buf.String(); want != have {
+		t.Errorf("\nwant %#v\nhave%#v", want, have)
+	}
+}
+
 // aller implements json.Marshaler, encoding.TextMarshaler, and fmt.Stringer.
 type aller struct{}