cleaning up marshaling/serialization (#1)

* cleaning up marshaling/serialization

* cleaning up marshaling/serialization

helpers.go

@@ -35,3 +35,43 @@ func ContainsPrefixOf(haystack []string, needle string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
+
+// Escaping strings for JSON encoding according to RFC8259.
+// Also encloses result in quotation marks "".
+func escapeString(dst []byte, s string) []byte {
+	dst = append(dst, '"')
+	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
+		c := s[i]
+		switch {
+		case c == '"':
+			// quotation mark
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', '"'}...)
+		case c == '\\':
+			// reverse solidus
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', '\\'}...)
+		case c >= 0x20:
+			// default, rest below are control chars
+			dst = append(dst, c)
+		case c == 0x08:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'b'}...)
+		case c < 0x09:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '0', '0' + c}...)
+		case c == 0x09:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 't'}...)
+		case c == 0x0a:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'n'}...)
+		case c == 0x0c:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'f'}...)
+		case c == 0x0d:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'r'}...)
+		case c < 0x10:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '0', 0x57 + c}...)
+		case c < 0x1a:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '1', 0x20 + c}...)
+		case c < 0x20:
+			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '1', 0x47 + c}...)
+		}
+	}
+	dst = append(dst, '"')
+	return dst
+}