(Go) How to use toml files?

Question

As title, I want to know how to use toml files from golang.

Before that, I show my toml examples. Is it right?

[datatitle]
enable = true
userids = [
             


        

Answer 1

A small update for the year 2019 - there is now newer alternative to BurntSushi/toml with a bit richer API to work with .toml files:

pelletier/go-toml (and documentation)

For example having config.toml file (or in memory):

[postgres]
user = "pelletier"
password = "mypassword"

apart from regular marshal and unmarshal of the entire thing into predefined structure (which you can see in the accepted answer) with pelletier/go-toml you can also query individual values like this:

config, err := toml.LoadFile("config.toml")

if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("Error ", err.Error())
} else {

    // retrieve data directly

    directUser := config.Get("postgres.user").(string)
    directPassword := config.Get("postgres.password").(string)
    fmt.Println("User is", directUser, " and password is", directPassword)

    // or using an intermediate object

    configTree := config.Get("postgres").(*toml.Tree)
    user := configTree.Get("user").(string)
    password := configTree.Get("password").(string)
    fmt.Println("User is", user, " and password is", password)

    // show where elements are in the file

    fmt.Printf("User position: %v\n", configTree.GetPosition("user"))
    fmt.Printf("Password position: %v\n", configTree.GetPosition("password"))

    // use a query to gather elements without walking the tree

    q, _ := query.Compile("$..[user,password]")
    results := q.Execute(config)
    for ii, item := range results.Values() {
        fmt.Println("Query result %d: %v", ii, item)
    }
}

UPDATE

There is also spf13/viper that works with .toml config files (among other supported formats), but it might be a bit overkill in many cases.