example getting raw bytes, closes #12

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Josh Baker 2016-11-04 19:41:23 -07:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -229,10 +229,24 @@ if !ok{
If your JSON is contained in a `[]byte` slice, there's the [GetBytes](https://godoc.org/github.com/tidwall/gjson#GetBytes) function. This is preferred over `Get(string(data), path)`.
```go
var data []byte = ...
res := gjson.GetBytes(data, path)
var json []byte = ...
result := gjson.GetBytes(json, path)
```
If you are using the `gjson.GetBytes(json, path)` function and you want to avoid converting `result.Raw` to a `[]byte`, then you can use this pattern:
```go
var json []byte = ...
result := gjson.GetBytes(json, path)
var raw []byte
if result.Index > 0 {
raw = json[result.Index:result.Index+len(result.Raw)]
} else {
raw = []byte(result.Raw)
}
```
This is a best-effort no allocation sub slice of the original json. This method utilizes the `result.Index` field, which is the position of the raw data in the original json. It's possible that the value of `result.Index` equals zero, in which case the `result.Raw` is converted to a `[]byte`.
## Performance