JSON Marshalling fails when an object has a field of type bson.ObjectId

[Travis Reeder]

Here's an example error:

2011/07/22 15:03:38 http: panic serving 127.0.0.1:36734: json: invalid UTF-8 in string: "N \xdd\xfc\\\r\xd2\rW\x00\x00\x05"

  

If I remove the field(s) like Id for instance:

Id  bson.ObjectId  "_id/c"

then it works no problem. Any ideas how to fix this?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hey Travis,

> Here's an example error:
> 2011/07/22 15:03:38 http: panic serving 127.0.0.1:36734: json: invalid UTF-8
> in string: "N \xdd\xfc\\\r\xd2\rW\x00\x00\x05"

Unlike BSON, JSON can't take raw binary data. If you want to encode,
you'll have to encode in a more friendly format to JSON..

Hmmm, gobson can actually give a hand there, by encoding the id it as
a hash via the marshaller interface. Would that be useful to you?

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[Travis Reeder]

Ya, that would definitely be helpful if it could implement the Marshaller and Unmarshaler interfaces. I think the best output would be for it to just call String() on the ObjectId and when unmarshalling if it sees an ObjectID it would create it with ObjectIdHex(string).

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Ya, that would definitely be helpful if it could implement the Marshaller
> and Unmarshaler interfaces. I think the best output would be for it to just
> call String() on the ObjectId and when unmarshalling if it sees an ObjectID
> it would create it with ObjectIdHex(string).

Sounds good, I'll see what I can do about that. Marshaller is easy, the
unmarshaller one requires a bit of thinking, but may be doable as well.