go-output-format

Helper utility to output data structures in to standardized formats, much like what is built in to vault, az and kubectl

I really like how these apps provide for flexible output, but wanted a way to do it without needing to re-write or copy it for every new tool.

Need to parse some output with jq? JSON is your format. Want to put it out in an easy to read yet still standardized format? YAML is for you!

This tool is intended to provide all that in a single reusable package.

Usage

Import with:

import "github.com/drewstinnett/go-output-format/formatter"

Example Usage:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/drewstinnett/go-output-format/formatter"
)

func main() {
    c := &formatter.Config{
        Format: "yaml",
    }

    type sample struct {
        FirstName string
        LastName  string
        Age       int
    }

    person := &sample{FirstName: "Jason", LastName: "Vorhees", Age: 11}
    out, err := formatter.OutputData(person, c)

    fmt.Println(string(out))
}

See examples for more example usage

Formatter details

YAML

Uses the standard gopkg.in/yaml.v2 library.

JSON

Uses the standard encoding/json library.

Plain

This is just vanilla old Golang output, using the %+v format.

GoTemplate

Use this format to parse the data in to a golang template. Useful for spitting data out in a more arbitrary format. This uses the text/template package to parse each item in the return slice. See the example here for full details.

TSV (Tab Separated Values)

Here be dragons, this is one I wrote. Intention here is to have a simple way to print out a data structure in a way that grep and the like can parse it.