Properly Create a JSON File and Read from It - json

Question

I am trying to create a JSON file with Golang. I have little knowledge of JSON Files and creating them but I have created a program that creates them. In this program, it takes form data from a website and then puts the data into a JSON struct, then adds the information into a folder. I have the 2 sections of data here. I put a comment where the error occurs along with the error
{
"cl":"[v1]",
"gr":"[A]",
"cr":"[8]"
} // End Of File Expected
{
"cl":"[v2]",
"gr":"[Z]",
"cr":"[8]"
}
So my questions are (1) What does the error mean, and (2) How/can I fix this when creating a JSON file with Golang? I can supply the Golang if needed.

Answer 1

So other than the json not being formatted correctly, here is an example of how to create json using a struct and json struct tags.
Proper JSON
[
{key:value, key value},
{key:value, key value}
]
What you have is
{key:value, key value}
{key:value, key value}
Which is two separate objects instead of one object in an array.
If you are reading this from file and the data is returned like your example then you might have to split on the newline to separate each object and unmarshal them separately.
Otherwise the below should server as an example.
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"strconv"
)
type j struct {
Cl []string `json:"cl"`
Gr []string `json:"gr"`
Cr []string `json:"cr"`
}
func main() {
// create an instance of j as a slice
var data []j
// using a for loop for create dummy data fast
for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
v := strconv.Itoa(i)
data = append(data, j{
Cl: []string{"foo " + v},
Gr: []string{"bar " + v},
Cr: []string{"foobar " + v},
})
}
// printing out json neatly to demonstrate
b, _ := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", " ")
fmt.Println(string(b))
// writing json to file
_ = ioutil.WriteFile("file.json", b, 0644)
// to append to a file
// create the file if it doesn't exists with O_CREATE, Set the file up for read write, add the append flag and set the permission
f, err := os.OpenFile("/var/log/debug-web.log", os.O_CREATE|os.O_RDWR|os.O_APPEND, 0660)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
// write to file, f.Write()
f.Write(b)
// if you are doing alot of I/O work you may not want to write out to file often instead load up a bytes.Buffer and write to file when you are done... assuming you don't run out of memory when loading to bytes.Buffer
}