jsonapi provides helpers and reference code for working with the JSON:API specification, focusing on predictable serialization, deserialization, and linkage of related resources. It enforces the spec’s conventions—data, attributes, relationships, included—so clients and servers exchange data in a consistent, cacheable way. By centralizing how resource identifiers, links, and pagination metadata are emitted, it reduces subtle incompatibilities between services. The library favors explicit schemas and type-safe bindings where possible, which helps large teams avoid drift in field names and relationship structures. It also offers utilities for sparse fieldsets and compound documents, minimizing payload size while keeping related entities synchronized. With consistent error objects and status mapping, it makes API error handling uniform across clients.

Features

  • Spec-compliant serialization and parsing of JSON:API payloads
  • Type-safe resource modeling with attributes and relationships
  • Support for compound documents via included resources
  • Pagination, links, and sparse fieldset helpers
  • Consistent error object formatting and status mapping
  • Hooks to customize naming, IDs, and relationship strategies

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Programming Language

Go

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Go JSON Serialization Libraries

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2025-10-10