Inserting and selecting PostGIS Geometry with Gorm

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a way to insert and retrieve geometric types using Golang, and specifically the library gorm. I\'m also attempting to use the library orb that defines

Answer 1

I used @robbieperry22's answer with a different encoding library and found I didn't need to tinker with bytes at all.

Included gist for reference.

import  "github.com/twpayne/go-geom/encoding/geojson"


type EWKBGeomPoint geom.Point

func (g *EWKBGeomPoint) Scan(input interface{}) error {
    gt, err := ewkb.Unmarshal(input.([]byte))
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    g = gt.(*EWKBGeomPoint)

    return nil
}

func (g EWKBGeomPoint) Value() (driver.Value, error) {
    b := geom.Point(g)
    bp := &b
    ewkbPt := ewkb.Point{Point: bp.SetSRID(4326)}
    return ewkbPt.Value()
}


type Track struct {
    gorm.Model

    GeometryPoint EWKBGeomPoint `gorm:"column:geom"`
}

And then used a little customization on the table set up/migrate part:

err = db.Exec(`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tracks (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    geom geometry(POINT, 4326) NOT NULL
);`).Error
if err != nil {
    return err
}

err = gormigrate.New(db, gormigrate.DefaultOptions, []*gormigrate.Migration{
{
    ID: "init",
    Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
        return tx.CreateTable(
            Tables...,
        ).Error
    },
},
{
    ID: "tracks_except_geom",
    Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
        return db.AutoMigrate(Track{}).Error
    },
},
}).Migrate()