---
title: Encoding Built-ins
sidebar_label: Encoding
---
<BuiltinTable category={"encoding"}/>

The `json.marshal_with_options` builtin's `opts` parameter accepts the following properties:

| Field    | Required | Type     | Default                                                              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| :------- | :------- | :------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `pretty` | No       | `bool`   | `true` if `indent` or `prefix` are declared, <br/> `false` otherwise | Enables multi-line, human-readable JSON output ("pretty-printing"). <br/>If this property is `true`, then objects will be marshaled into multi-line JSON with either user-specified or default indent/prefix options. If this property is `false`, `indent`/`prefix` will be ignored and this builtin functions identically to `json.marshal()`. |
| `indent` | No       | `string` | `"\t"` <br/> (Horizontal tab, character 0x09)                        | The string to use when indenting nested keys in the emitted JSON. One or more copies of this string will be included before child elements in every object or array.                                                                                                                                                                             |
| `prefix` | No       | `string` | `""` <br/> (empty)                                                   | The string to prefix lines with in the emitted JSON. One copy of this string will be prepended to each line.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

Default values will be used if:

- `opts` is an empty object.
- `opts` does not contain the named property.

#### Examples

<PlaygroundExample dir={require.context("../_examples/encoding/envoy_header_manipulation")} />
