// Copyright 2018, OpenCensus Authors
//
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package testutils

import (
	"encoding/json"
)

// GenerateNormalizedJSON generates a normalized JSON from the string
// given to the function. Useful to compare JSON contents that
// may have differences due to formatting. It returns nil in case of
// invalid JSON.
func GenerateNormalizedJSON(j string) string {
	var i interface{}
	json.Unmarshal([]byte(j), &i)
	n, _ := json.Marshal(i)
	return string(n)
}