From golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.MarshalJSON:
The time is a quoted string in RFC 3339 format, with sub-second precision added if present.
The zeros are insignificant, so they are omitted. If that doesn't work for you, implement your own MarshalJSON method:
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"time"
)
type MyType struct {
Foo string
CreatedAt time.Time `json:"-" bson:"createdAt"`
}
func (t MyType) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
type MyType_ MyType // prevent recursion
return json.Marshal(struct {
MyType_
CreatedAt string `json:"createdAt"` // Override time field
}{
MyType_(t),
t.CreatedAt.Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00"),
})
}
func main() {
t := MyType{
Foo: "bar",
CreatedAt: time.Date(2018, 10, 2, 12, 13, 14, 0, time.UTC),
}
b, err := json.MarshalIndent(t, "", " ")
fmt.Println(err, string(b))
t.CreatedAt = t.CreatedAt.Add(123456 * time.Microsecond)
b, err = json.MarshalIndent(t, "", " ")
fmt.Println(err, string(b))
}
// Output:
// <nil> {
// "Foo": "bar",
// "T": "2018-10-02T12:13:14.000Z"
// }
// <nil> {
// "Foo": "bar",
// "T": "2018-10-02T12:13:14.123Z"
// }
https://play.golang.org/p/bmDk1pejGPS
If you have to do this in many places, it may be worthwhile to create your own time type (that will be inconvenient if you have to do date math, though):
type MyType struct {
Foo string
CreatedAt MyTime `json:"createdAt" bson:"createdAt"`
}
type MyTime struct {
time.Time
}
func (t MyTime) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return json.Marshal(t.Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00"))
}