golang: Marshal struct to json string

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// play.golang.org/p/IAGoPiUdUMc

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
)

type Employee struct {
	FirstName string `json:"first_name"`
	LastName  string `json:"last_name"`
}

/* Marshal struct to json string */
func main() {
	employee := Employee{FirstName: "John", LastName: "Smith"}

	employeeJsonStr := marshall(employee)

	fmt.Println(employeeJsonStr)

	/* Example output
	{
	  "first_name":"John",
	  "last_name":"Smith"
	}*/
}

func marshall(employee Employee) string {
	employeeByte, _ := json.Marshal(employee)
	return string(employeeByte)
}