toolkit

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Go-Toolkit

A simple example of how to create a reusable Go module with commonly used tools.

Made as apart of Trevor Sawler's course on Udemy

The included tools are:

• Read JSON
• Write JSON
• Produce a JSON encoded error response
• Upload a file to a specified directory
• Download a static file
• Get a random string of length n
• Post JSON to a remote service
• Create a directory, including all parent directories, if it does not already exist
• Create a URL safe slug from a string

Installation

go get -u github.com/msf42/go-toolkit

Documentation

Index

• type JSONResponse
• type Tools
  • func (t *Tools) CreateDirIfNotExist(path string) error
  • func (t *Tools) DownloadStaticFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, pathName, displayName string)
  • func (t *Tools) ErrorJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, err error, status ...int) error
  • func (t *Tools) PushJSONToRemote(uri string, data interface{}, client ...*http.Client) (*http.Response, int, error)
  • func (t *Tools) RandomString(n int) string
  • func (t *Tools) ReadJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, data interface{}) error
  • func (t *Tools) Slugify(s string) (string, error)
  • func (t *Tools) UploadFiles(r *http.Request, uploadDir string, rename ...bool) ([]*UploadedFile, error)
  • func (t *Tools) UploadOneFile(r *http.Request, uploadDir string, rename ...bool) (*UploadedFile, error)
  • func (t *Tools) WriteJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, status int, data interface{}, headers ...http.Header) error
• type UploadedFile

Types

type JSONResponse

type JSONResponse struct {
	Error   bool        `json:"error"`
	Message string      `json:"message"`
	Data    interface{} `json:"data,omitempty"`
}

JSONResponse is the type used for sending JSON around

type Tools

type Tools struct {
	MaxFileSize        int
	AllowedFileTypes   []string
	MaxJSONSize        int
	AllowUnknownFields bool
}

Tools is the type used to instantiate this module. Any variable of this type will have access to all the methods with the receiver Tools.

func (*Tools) CreateDirIfNotExist

func (t *Tools) CreateDirIfNotExist(path string) error

CreateDirIfNotExist creates a directory and all necessary parents if it does not exist

func (*Tools) DownloadStaticFile

func (t *Tools) DownloadStaticFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, pathName, displayName string)

DownloadStaticFile downloads a file without displaying it in the browser

func (*Tools) ErrorJSON

func (t *Tools) ErrorJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, err error, status ...int) error

ErrorJSON takes an error, & optionally a status code, and generates and sends a JSON error message

func (*Tools) PushJSONToRemote

func (t *Tools) PushJSONToRemote(uri string, data interface{}, client ...*http.Client) (*http.Response, int, error)

PushJSONToRemote posts arbitrary data to some URL as JSON, and returns the response, status code, and error, if any. The final parameter, client, is optional. If none is specified, we use the standard http.Client.

func (*Tools) RandomString

func (t *Tools) RandomString(n int) string

RandomString generates a random string of length n

func (*Tools) ReadJSON

func (t *Tools) ReadJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, data interface{}) error

ReadJSON tries to read the body of a request and converts from json into a go data variable

func (*Tools) Slugify

func (t *Tools) Slugify(s string) (string, error)

Slugify is a very simple slug generator

func (*Tools) UploadFiles

func (t *Tools) UploadFiles(r *http.Request, uploadDir string, rename ...bool) ([]*UploadedFile, error)

UploadFiles uploads multiple files

func (*Tools) UploadOneFile

func (t *Tools) UploadOneFile(r *http.Request, uploadDir string, rename ...bool) (*UploadedFile, error)

UploadOneFile uploads one file

func (*Tools) WriteJSON

func (t *Tools) WriteJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, status int, data interface{}, headers ...http.Header) error

WriteJSON takes a response status code and arbitrary data and writes json to the client

type UploadedFile

type UploadedFile struct {
	NewFileName      string
	OriginalFileName string
	FileSize         int64
}

UploadedFile is a struct used to save information about an uploaded file