in internal/encoding/json/encode.go [730:767]
func (se structEncoder) encode(e *encodeState, v reflect.Value, opts encOpts) {
next := byte('{')
FieldLoop:
for i := range se.fields.list {
f := &se.fields.list[i]
// Find the nested struct field by following f.index.
fv := v
for _, i := range f.index {
if fv.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
if fv.IsNil() {
continue FieldLoop
}
fv = fv.Elem()
}
fv = fv.Field(i)
}
if (f.omitEmpty && isEmptyValue(fv)) ||
(f.omitZero && (f.isZero == nil && fv.IsZero() || (f.isZero != nil && f.isZero(fv)))) {
continue
}
e.WriteByte(next)
next = ','
if opts.escapeHTML {
e.WriteString(f.nameEscHTML)
} else {
e.WriteString(f.nameNonEsc)
}
opts.quoted = f.quoted
f.encoder(e, fv, opts)
}
if next == '{' {
e.WriteString("{}")
} else {
e.WriteByte('}')
}
}