encoding/json: example on MarshalJSON, UnmarshalJSON

Updates #16360.

Change-Id: I5bf13d3367e68c5d8435f6ef2161d5a74cc747a7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/29611Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>

src/encoding/json/example_marshaling_test.go

+// Copyright 2016 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package json_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type Animal int
+
+const (
+	Unknown Animal = iota
+	Gopher
+	Zebra
+)
+
+func (a *Animal) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	var s string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &s); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	switch strings.ToLower(s) {
+	default:
+		*a = Unknown
+	case "gopher":
+		*a = Gopher
+	case "zebra":
+		*a = Zebra
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (a Animal) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	var s string
+	switch a {
+	default:
+		s = "unknown"
+	case Gopher:
+		s = "gopher"
+	case Zebra:
+		s = "zebra"
+	}
+
+	return json.Marshal(s)
+}
+
+func Example_customMarshalJSON() {
+	blob := `["gopher","armadillo","zebra","unknown","gopher","bee","gopher","zebra"]`
+	var zoo []Animal
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(blob), &zoo); err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	census := make(map[Animal]int)
+	for _, animal := range zoo {
+		census[animal] += 1
+	}
+
+	fmt.Printf("Zoo Census:\n* Gophers: %d\n* Zebras:  %d\n* Unknown: %d\n",
+		census[Gopher], census[Zebra], census[Unknown])
+
+	// Output:
+	// Zoo Census:
+	// * Gophers: 3
+	// * Zebras:  2
+	// * Unknown: 3
+}