Jsonify is escaping characters

[zbayoff]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.63.1-CE9ACEB7 darwin/amd64 BuildDate: 2020-01-23T20:10:12Z

Test:

{{ $testDict := dict "<any-key> " “value”}}
{{ $testDict | jsonify }}

gives:

{"\u003cany-key\u003e":“value”}

Is this a bug with jsonify or is there a hugo function I’m missing? Even a short term fix/hack would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

[bep]

It's the Go HTML template doing its ... job.

Try

{{ $testDict | jsonify | safeJS }}
or

{{ $testDict | jsonify | safeHTML }}

[zbayoff]

@bep Those don't work unfortunately. I had to resolve with a replace:

replace (replace $testDict "\\u003c" "<") "\\u003e" ">"

[bep]

That function just delegates to Go's JSON package, so not sure what's going on ... But I'll reopen.

[jmooring]

There's nothing wrong with escaping those characters. See this roundtrip:

{{ index (dict "<key>" "val" | jsonify | transform.Unmarshal) "<key>" }} --> val

If you really don't want to escape &, <, and >, do this:

{{ dict "<key>" "val" | jsonify (dict "noHTMLEscape" true) }}

See https://gohugo.io/functions/encoding/jsonify/

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