Go Tools

Collection of useful tools for any Go-based project. As of now, the only tool included is a tool to read configuration files in a folder.

ConfigLoader

Fully implemented in configLoader.go. Given a folder, reads all text files with a .cfg extension (other extensions can be read by changing the configType variable).

Each setting should be written in its own line, with the format name = value. Empty lines are ignored. Comments can be added by prefixing the line with # or //.

Example of a configuration file:

#Connection settings
localServer = true
serverIP = 192.168.40.112:8432

//Test settings
nInstances = 24
updateRate = 0.8
queryList = 1 2 3 4 5

Multiple methods to facilitate reading are included. It is possible to read directly the fields with their intended type (e.g., GetInt64Config). Methods for all basic types are included.

Furthermore, it is possible to provide a default value to be returned when the key is not present (e.g., GetInt64Config("myKey", "oups!") will return the value associated to "myKey" if present, otherwise returns "oups!").

GetConfig, GetAndHasConfig, GetOrDefault can be used for values of any type, return the value in string form plus, for the last two, respectively, a boolean (representing if the key is present) or the default value given as argument.