v1

example/main.go

@@ -11,81 +11,78 @@ var testConf = []byte(`
 # commented
 port=10000
 servers = 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3
-bool0=0
-booltrue = true
-distance=13.42
-iamsure = hopefully you're not mistaken
-float = 13.1984
-color`)
+some_ints = 1, 2, 3, 4
+map = a: 1, b: 2, c:3
+`)
 
 func main() {
 	r := bytes.NewReader(testConf) // creating io.Reader from []byte()
-	config := conf.ParseReader(r)  // we could call conf.ParseFile("filename") here
+	config, _ := conf.Read(r)      // we could call conf.Open("filename") here
 
-	// First of all we can access parsed values directly:
-	for key, value := range config.Settings {
-		fmt.Println(key, value)
+	// main methods if conf.Map are Find, Get, and GetDefault
+	// Find returns conf.Value and a bool indicating whether value has been found
+	_, ok := config.Find("port")
+	if !ok {
+		// key "port" was not found
+		panic("not found")
 	}
-	for opt := range config.Options {
-		fmt.Println(opt)
-	}
-	fmt.Println()
 
-	// Find( key string) returns instance of Setting and an
-	// error if key was not found
-	//
-	// type Setting struct {
-	// 		Value 	string	// value if found
-	// }
-	//
-	// You can access Setting's Value field (type string) directly.
-	port, err := config.Find("port")
-	fmt.Printf("variable port has type: %T, port.Value == %v, type of port.Value is: %T, error returned: %v\n", port, port.Value, port.Value, err)
+	// GetDefault will return Value set to provided default
+	// if value is not in the map. In this example the returned
+	// value wiill be Value("vyvalue").
+	def := config.GetDefault("non-existant-key", "myvalue")
+
+	fmt.Println(def.String()) // "myvalue"
+
+	// Get will return empty conf.Value if it was not found.
+	// get values from line "servers = 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3".
+	servers := config.Get("servers")
+
+	// the returned Value has many methods to convert the underlying string
+	for i, s := range servers.StringSlice() {
+		fmt.Println(i+1, "\t", s) // 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3
+	}
 
 	// We can cast Setting.Value to a desired type including int, float64,
 	// bool and string. Method will return an error if Setting Value field
 	// can not be interpreted as desired type.
-	n, err := port.Int()
-	fmt.Printf("n has value: %v, type: %T, err: %v\n", n, n, err)
-
-	// Another syntax for getting Setting instance is to use Get() method
-	// which never returns errors. Get will return Setting with empty string
-	// in Value filed if requested key was now found.
-	d := config.Get("distance")
-	distance, err := d.Float64()
-	fmt.Printf("var distance has value: %v, type: %T, error value: %v\n", distance, distance, err)
-
-	// Get() syntax can be is slightly shorter if we're "sure" that key exists in
-	// the config.
-	sure := config.Get("iamsure").String() // String method never returns errors
-	// or simply sure := config.Get("iamsure").Value:
-	fmt.Println(sure)
-
-	// or like this:
-	fl, _ := config.Get("float").Float64() // we're dropping error here. Bad if value fails to convert.
-	fmt.Println("fl, _ := config.Get(\"float\").Float64() Value of var fl is:", fl)
-
-	// We can access comma-separated values of key like this:
-	servers := config.Get("servers").StringSlice()
-	fmt.Println("Found servers:")
-	for i, s := range servers {
-		fmt.Println(i+1, "\t", s)
+	n, err := config.Get("port").Int()
+	if err != nil {
+		// n is zero value for int and we failed to convert
+		// value from our file to int.
+		panic(err)
 	}
-	// There is also a GetDefault() method
-	def := config.GetDefault("non-existant-key", "myvalue")
-	fmt.Println(def.Value) // "myvalue"
+	fmt.Println(n) // 10000
 
-	// You can use HasOption method to find whether single-word options were
-	// present in the the config
-	if config.HasOption("color") {
-		fmt.Println("Hooray, we've found option \"color\"!")
-		// do something useful
+	// The value methods are as follows:
+	v := config.Get("some_ints") // the config line is "some_ints = 1, 2, 3, 4"
+
+	// String returns string as is (only trimmed from whitespace)
+	s := v.String()
+	fmt.Printf("%T, %v\n", s, s) // string, 1, 2, 3, 4
+
+	// StringSlice tries to interpret value as comma-separated list, trims each element from whitespace
+	ss := v.StringSlice()
+	fmt.Printf("%T, %v\n", ss, ss) // []string, [1 2 3 4]
+
+	// IntSlice parses value in the same way as StringSlice then tries to convert each element
+	// to int. Failure to convert any element is an error.
+	is, err := v.IntSlice()
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
 	}
+	fmt.Printf("%T, %v\n", is, is) // []int, [1 2 3 4]
 
-	// Below code finds two keys with bool values in the Config
-	// and outputs those.
-	var t, f bool
-	t, _ = config.Get("booltrue").Bool()
-	f, _ = config.Get("bool0").Bool()
-	fmt.Printf("t's type is: %T, value: %v, f's type is: %T, value: %v\n\n", t, t, f, f)
+	// there are similar methods for bool and float64 types.
+
+	// Map method of Value tries to interpret value as mapping where
+	// keys are sepearated from values with ":".
+	// This example parses line for the example config
+	// "map = a: 1, b: 2, c: 3"
+	m, _ := config.Get("map").Map() // return conf.Map and error if any
+	fmt.Printf("%T, %v\n", m, m)    // conf.Map, map[a:1 b:2 c:3]
+
+	// key "с" can be interpreted as int
+	x, _ := m.Get("c").Int()
+	fmt.Println(x) // prints 3
 }