From 53523f6a7d6ca6aa6ec4a1d20af773f333284371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:03:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] encoding/json: decode [] as empty slice, not nil slice

Test was already present, but bug in reflect.DeepEqual hid this bug.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5375090
---
 src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go b/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go
index e786075455..2ea06c50c2 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/json/decode.go
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ func (d *decodeState) array(v reflect.Value) {
 			d.error(errPhase)
 		}
 	}
+
 	if i < av.Len() {
 		if !sv.IsValid() {
 			// Array.  Zero the rest.
@@ -392,6 +393,9 @@ func (d *decodeState) array(v reflect.Value) {
 			sv.SetLen(i)
 		}
 	}
+	if i == 0 && av.Kind() == reflect.Slice && sv.IsNil() {
+		sv.Set(reflect.MakeSlice(sv.Type(), 0, 0))
+	}
 }
 
 // object consumes an object from d.data[d.off-1:], decoding into the value v.
-- 
2.50.0