go2array

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go2array

Utility to encode a file (or a series of files) into a Go package.

Having set up your Go environment, simply run

    go get github.com/parvit/go2array

You must provide a name for the generated variables and the package name, the input files are specified as parameters at the end. For example:

    go2array [-prefix <variablePrefix>] [-export] [-flat] [-nolist] [-package <packageName>] [-platform <platformName>] file1 [file2 ...]

Default variabilePrefix is the value "binaries"

The output will be two files:

1. <variablePrefix>_filelist.go : That will contain a map with all the variables assigned to their original name
2. <variablePrefix>_data.go : Which will contain all the variables data

In _data.go you will find:

    package <packageName>

    // for each file, a variable is declared incrementing the index
    var <variablePrefix>_<fileIndex> []byte = []byte {
      0x49, 0x20, 0x63, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x27, 0x74, 0x20, 0x62, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x69,
      0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x20, 0x79, 0x6f, 0x75, 0x20, 0x61, 0x63, 0x74, 0x75,
      0x61, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x79, 0x20, 0x64, 0x65, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x64, 0x65, 0x64,
      0x20, 0x74, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x4b, 0x75, 0x64, 0x6f, 0x73,
      0x20, 0x66, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x20, 0x62, 0x65, 0x69, 0x6e, 0x67, 0x20, 0x74,
      0x68, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6f, 0x75, 0x67, 0x68, 0x2e, 0x0a,
    }
    

Contributors

• Clint Caywood
• Paul Vollmer
• Vittorio Parrella