HomeDashboard Exchange Rate DataSource

Fetches exchange rates for specified currencies.

Config

Config have to contain URL of an exchange rate API and a list of currencie pairs an exchange rate should be fetched. More details about loading config at https://github.com/tommzn/go-config

Config example

exchangerate:
  url: "https://api.frankfurter.app/latest"
  date_format: "2006-01-02"
  conversions:
    - from: "EUR"
      to: "USD"
    - from: "USD"
      to: "EUR"

Usage

After creating a new datasource, you can fetch specified exchange rates. If anything works well Fetch will return a exchange rates struct or otherwise an error.

    import (
       exchangerate "github.com/tommzn/hdb-datasource-exchangerate"  
       events "github.com/tommzn/hdb-events-go"  
    )
    
    datasource, err := exchangerate.New(config)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    weatherData, err := datasource.Fetch()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("Exchange Rates: %d\n", len(weatherData.(events.ExchangeRates).Rates))

Links

• HomeDashboard Documentation