in internal/encoding/json/encode.go [778:821]
func (me mapEncoder) encode(e *encodeState, v reflect.Value, opts encOpts) {
if v.IsNil() {
e.WriteString("null")
return
}
if e.ptrLevel++; e.ptrLevel > startDetectingCyclesAfter {
// We're a large number of nested ptrEncoder.encode calls deep;
// start checking if we've run into a pointer cycle.
ptr := v.UnsafePointer()
if _, ok := e.ptrSeen[ptr]; ok {
e.error(&UnsupportedValueError{v, fmt.Sprintf("encountered a cycle via %s", v.Type())})
}
e.ptrSeen[ptr] = struct{}{}
defer delete(e.ptrSeen, ptr)
}
e.WriteByte('{')
// Extract and sort the keys.
var (
sv = make([]reflectWithString, v.Len())
mi = v.MapRange()
err error
)
for i := 0; mi.Next(); i++ {
if sv[i].ks, err = resolveKeyName(mi.Key()); err != nil {
e.error(fmt.Errorf("json: encoding error for type %q: %q", v.Type().String(), err.Error()))
}
sv[i].v = mi.Value()
}
slices.SortFunc(sv, func(i, j reflectWithString) int {
return strings.Compare(i.ks, j.ks)
})
for i, kv := range sv {
if i > 0 {
e.WriteByte(',')
}
e.Write(appendString(e.AvailableBuffer(), kv.ks, opts.escapeHTML))
e.WriteByte(':')
me.elemEnc(e, kv.v, opts)
}
e.WriteByte('}')
e.ptrLevel--
}