fix: clipboard stored as json leading to problem with double quotes

history/history.go

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ type History map[string]Entry
 type Entry struct {
 	LastUsed      time.Time `json:"last_used,omitempty"`
 	Used          int       `json:"used,omitempty"`
-	DaysSinceUsed int
+	DaysSinceUsed int       `json:"-"`
 }
 
 func (s History) Save(entry string) {
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func (s History) Save(entry string) {
 
 	s[entry] = h
 
-	util.ToJson(s, filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "history.json"))
+	util.ToJson(&s, filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "history.json"))
 }
 
 func Get() History {

modules/applications.go

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ func parse() []Entry {
 		entries = append(entries, v.Generic)
 	}
 
-	util.ToJson(entries, filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), fmt.Sprintf("%s.json", ApplicationsName)))
+	util.ToJson(&entries, filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), fmt.Sprintf("%s.json", ApplicationsName)))
 
 	return entries
 }

modules/clipboard/clipboard.go

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (c Clipboard) Entries(term string) []modules.Entry {
 
 	es := []Entry{}
 
-	util.FromJson(c.file, &es)
+	util.FromGob(c.file, &es)
 
 	for _, v := range es {
 		e := modules.Entry{
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func (c Clipboard) Setup(cfg *config.Config) modules.Workable {
 
 	c.prefix = module.Prefix
 	c.switcherExclusive = module.SwitcherExclusive
-	c.file = filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "clipboard.json")
+	c.file = filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "clipboard.gob")
 	c.max = cfg.Clipboard.MaxEntries
 
 	c.imgTypes = make(map[string]string)
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ func (c Clipboard) Setup(cfg *config.Config) modules.Workable {
 	c.imgTypes["image/jpeg"] = "jpeg"
 
 	current := []Entry{}
-	util.FromJson(c.file, &current)
+	util.FromGob(c.file, &current)
 
 	c.entries = clean(current, c.file)
 
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ func clean(entries []Entry, file string) []Entry {
 		}
 	}
 
-	util.ToJson(cleaned, file)
+	util.ToGob(&cleaned, file)
 
 	return cleaned
 }
@@ -235,6 +235,6 @@ func (c *Clipboard) watch() {
 			c.entries = slices.Clone(c.entries[:c.max])
 		}
 
-		util.ToJson(c.entries, c.file)
+		util.ToGob(&c.entries, c.file)
 	}
 }

ui/interactions.go

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func setupCommands() {
 		os.Remove(filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "applications.json"))
 	}
 	commands["clearclipboard"] = func() {
-		os.Remove(filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "clipboard.json"))
+		os.Remove(filepath.Join(util.CacheDir(), "clipboard.bson"))
 	}
 }
 

util/file.go

@@ -1,29 +1,56 @@
 package util
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/gob"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"io"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 )
 
-func ToJson(src any, dest string) {
-	err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0755)
+func ToGob[T any](val *T, dest string) {
+	var b bytes.Buffer
+	encoder := gob.NewEncoder(&b)
+	if err := encoder.Encode(val); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalln(err)
+	}
+
+	writeFile(b.Bytes(), dest)
+}
+
+func FromGob[T any](src string, dest *T) bool {
+	if _, err := os.Stat(src); err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	file, err := os.Open(src)
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Println(err)
-		return
+		log.Fatalln(err)
 	}
 
-	b, err := json.Marshal(src)
+	b, err := io.ReadAll(file)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Panic(err)
+	}
+
+	decoder := gob.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(b))
+	err = decoder.Decode(dest)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalln(err)
 	}
 
-	err = os.WriteFile(dest, b, 0o600)
+	return true
+}
+
+func ToJson[T any](src *T, dest string) {
+	b, err := json.Marshal(src)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalln(err)
 	}
+
+	writeFile(b, dest)
 }
 
 func FromJson[T any](src string, dest *T) bool {
@@ -70,3 +97,16 @@ func CacheDir() string {
 
 	return filepath.Join(dir, "walker")
 }
+
+func writeFile(b []byte, dest string) {
+	err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0755)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Println(err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	err = os.WriteFile(dest, b, 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalln(err)
+	}
+}