Add PureJSON for rendering unescaped json data

context.go

@@ -679,6 +679,12 @@ func (c *Context) JSON(code int, obj interface{}) {
 	c.Render(code, render.JSON{Data: obj})
 }
 
+// PureJSON serializes the given struct as JSON into the response body.
+// PureJSON, unlike JSON, does not replace special html characters with their unicode entities.
+func (c *Context) PureJSON(code int, obj interface{}) {
+	c.Render(code, render.PureJSON{Data: obj})
+}
+
 // XML serializes the given struct as XML into the response body.
 // It also sets the Content-Type as "application/xml".
 func (c *Context) XML(code int, obj interface{}) {

context_test.go

@@ -570,14 +570,29 @@ func TestContextRenderPanicIfErr(t *testing.T) {
 
 // Tests that the response is serialized as JSON
 // and Content-Type is set to application/json
+// and special HTML characters are escaped
 func TestContextRenderJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := CreateTestContext(w)
 
-	c.JSON(201, H{"foo": "bar"})
+	c.JSON(http.StatusCreated, H{"foo": "bar", "html": "<b>"})
 
-	assert.Equal(t, 201, w.Code)
-	assert.Equal(t, "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}", w.Body.String())
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusCreated, w.Code)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		"{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"html\":\"\\u003cb\\u003e\"}\n",
+		w.Body.String())
+	assert.Equal(t, "application/json; charset=utf-8", w.HeaderMap.Get("Content-Type"))
+}
+
+// Tests that the response is serialized as JSON
+// and Content-Type is set to application/json
+// and special HTML characters are preserved
+func TestContextRenderPureJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	c, w, _ := CreateTestContext()
+	c.PureJSON(201, H{"foo": "bar", "html": "<b>"})
+	assert.Equal(t, w.Code, 201)
+	assert.Equal(t, "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"html\":\"<b>\"}\n", w.Body.String())
 	assert.Equal(t, "application/json; charset=utf-8", w.HeaderMap.Get("Content-Type"))
 }
 

render/json.go

@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ type JSON struct {
 	Data interface{}
 }
 
+type PureJSON struct {
+	Data interface{}
+}
+
+
 type IndentedJSON struct {
 	Data interface{}
 }
@@ -49,6 +54,13 @@ func WriteJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, obj interface{}) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (r PureJSON) Render(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
+	writeContentType(w, jsonContentType)
+	encoder := json.NewEncoder(w)
+	encoder.SetEscapeHTML(false)
+	return encoder.Encode(r.Data)
+}
+
 func (r IndentedJSON) Render(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
 	r.WriteContentType(w)
 	jsonBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(r.Data, "", "    ")

render/render_test.go

@@ -43,12 +43,29 @@ func TestRenderJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	data := map[string]interface{}{
 		"foo": "bar",
+		"html": "<b>",
 	}
 
 	err := (JSON{data}).Render(w)
 
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}", w.Body.String())
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		w.Body.String(),
+		"{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"html\":\"\\u003cb\\u003e\"}\n")
+	assert.Equal(t, w.Header().Get("Content-Type"), "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+}
+
+func TestRenderPureJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	data := map[string]interface{}{
+		"foo":  "bar",
+		"html": "<b>",
+	}
+	err := (PureJSON{data}).Render(w)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"html\":\"<b>\"}\n", w.Body.String())
 	assert.Equal(t, "application/json; charset=utf-8", w.Header().Get("Content-Type"))
 }