better JSON encoding (less allocs)

api.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"log"
 	"math"
 	"net/http"
@@ -21,13 +22,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 type ApiMetricData struct {
-	Error *string `json:"error,omitempty"`
-	From  int64   `json:"from"`
-	To    int64   `json:"to"`
-	Data  []Float `json:"data,omitempty"`
-	Avg   Float   `json:"avg"`
-	Min   Float   `json:"min"`
-	Max   Float   `json:"max"`
+	Error *string    `json:"error,omitempty"`
+	From  int64      `json:"from"`
+	To    int64      `json:"to"`
+	Data  FloatArray `json:"data,omitempty"`
+	Avg   Float      `json:"avg"`
+	Min   Float      `json:"min"`
+	Max   Float      `json:"max"`
 }
 
 // TODO: Optimize this, just like the stats endpoint!
@@ -109,7 +110,13 @@ func handleWrite(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	dec := lineprotocol.NewDecoder(bufio.NewReader(r.Body))
+	bytes, err := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		http.Error(rw, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+		return
+	}
+
+	dec := lineprotocol.NewDecoderWithBytes(bytes)
 	if err := decodeLine(dec); err != nil {
 		http.Error(rw, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
 		return

float.go

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+// Go's JSON encoder for floats does not support NaN (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3480).
+// This program uses NaN as a signal for missing data.
+// For the HTTP JSON API to be able to handle NaN values,
+// we have to use our own type which implements encoding/json.Marshaler itself.
+type Float float32
+
+var NaN Float = Float(math.NaN())
+var nullAsBytes []byte = []byte("null")
+
+func (f Float) IsNaN() bool {
+	return math.IsNaN(float64(f))
+}
+
+func (f Float) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	if math.IsNaN(float64(f)) {
+		return nullAsBytes, nil
+	}
+
+	return strconv.AppendFloat(make([]byte, 0, 10), float64(f), 'f', 1, 32), nil
+}
+
+func (f *Float) UnmarshalJSON(input []byte) error {
+	if string(input) == "null" {
+		*f = NaN
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	val, err := strconv.ParseFloat(string(input), 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	*f = Float(val)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Same as `[]Float`, but can be marshaled to JSON with less allocations.
+type FloatArray []Float
+
+func (fa FloatArray) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	buf := make([]byte, 0, 2+len(fa)*8)
+	buf = append(buf, '[')
+	if len(fa) > 0 {
+		buf = strconv.AppendFloat(buf, float64(fa[0]), 'f', 1, 32)
+		for i := 1; i < len(fa); i++ {
+			buf = append(buf, ',')
+			buf = strconv.AppendFloat(buf, float64(fa[i]), 'f', 1, 32)
+		}
+	}
+	buf = append(buf, ']')
+	return buf, nil
+}

lineprotocol.go

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
-	"math"
-	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -13,41 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 )
 
-// Go's JSON encoder for floats does not support NaN (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3480).
-// This program uses NaN as a signal for missing data.
-// For the HTTP JSON API to be able to handle NaN values,
-// we have to use our own type which implements encoding/json.Marshaler itself.
-type Float float64
-
-var NaN Float = Float(math.NaN())
-
-func (f Float) IsNaN() bool {
-	return math.IsNaN(float64(f))
-}
-
-func (f Float) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
-	if math.IsNaN(float64(f)) {
-		return []byte("null"), nil
-	}
-
-	return []byte(strconv.FormatFloat(float64(f), 'f', 2, 64)), nil
-}
-
-func (f *Float) UnmarshalJSON(input []byte) error {
-	s := string(input)
-	if s == "null" {
-		*f = NaN
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	val, err := strconv.ParseFloat(s, 64)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	*f = Float(val)
-	return nil
-}
-
 type Metric struct {
 	Name  string
 	minfo metricInfo