How to handle configuration in Go [closed]

Answer 1

Use toml like this article Reading config files the Go way

Answer 2

I agree with nemo and I wrote a little tool to make it all real easy.

bitbucket.org/gotamer/cfg is a json configuration package

• You define your config items in your application as a struct.
• A json config file template from your struct is saved on the first run
• You can save runtime modifications to the config

See doc.go for an example

Answer 3

I have started using Gcfg which uses Ini-like files. It's simple - if you want something simple, this is a good choice.

Here's the loading code I am using currently, which has default settings and allows command line flags (not shown) that override some of my config:

package util

import (
    "code.google.com/p/gcfg"
)

type Config struct {
    Port int
    Verbose bool
    AccessLog string
    ErrorLog string
    DbDriver string
    DbConnection string
    DbTblPrefix string
}

type configFile struct {
    Server Config
}

const defaultConfig = `
    [server]
    port = 8000
    verbose = false
    accessLog = -
    errorLog  = -
    dbDriver     = mysql
    dbConnection = testuser:TestPasswd9@/test
    dbTblPrefix  =
`

func LoadConfiguration(cfgFile string, port int, verbose bool) Config {
    var err error
    var cfg configFile

    if cfgFile != "" {
        err = gcfg.ReadFileInto(&cfg, cfgFile)
    } else {
        err = gcfg.ReadStringInto(&cfg, defaultConfig)
    }

    PanicOnError(err)

    if port != 0 {
        cfg.Server.Port = port
    }
    if verbose {
        cfg.Server.Verbose = true
    }

    return cfg.Server
}

Answer 4

I usually use JSON for more complicated data structures. The downside is that you easily end up with a bunch of code to tell the user where the error was, various edge cases and what not.

For base configuration (api keys, port numbers, ...) I've had very good luck with the gcfg package. It is based on the git config format.

From the documentation:

Sample config:

; Comment line
[section]
name = value # Another comment
flag # implicit value for bool is true

Go struct:

type Config struct {
    Section struct {
            Name string
            Flag bool
    }
}

And the code needed to read it:

var cfg Config
err := gcfg.ReadFileInto(&cfg, "myconfig.gcfg")

It also supports slice values, so you can allow specifying a key multiple times and other nice features like that.

Answer 5

have a look at gonfig

// load
config, _ := gonfig.FromJson(myJsonFile)
// read with defaults
host, _ := config.GetString("service/host", "localhost")
port, _ := config.GetInt("service/port", 80)
test, _ := config.GetBool("service/testing", false)
rate, _ := config.GetFloat("service/rate", 0.0)
// parse section into target structure
config.GetAs("service/template", &template)

Answer 6

I wrote a simple ini config library in golang.

https://github.com/c4pt0r/cfg

goroutine-safe, easy to use

package cfg
import (
    "testing"
)

func TestCfg(t *testing.T) {
    c := NewCfg("test.ini")
    if err := c.Load() ; err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
    c.WriteInt("hello", 42)
    c.WriteString("hello1", "World")

    v, err := c.ReadInt("hello", 0)
    if err != nil || v != 42 {
        t.Error(err)
    }

    v1, err := c.ReadString("hello1", "")
    if err != nil || v1 != "World" {
        t.Error(err)
    }

    if err := c.Save(); err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
}

===================Update=======================

Recently I need an INI parser with section support, and I write a simple package:

github.com/c4pt0r/cfg

u can parse INI like using "flag" package:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "github.com/c4pt0r/ini"
)

var conf = ini.NewConf("test.ini")

var (
    v1 = conf.String("section1", "field1", "v1")
    v2 = conf.Int("section1", "field2", 0)
)

func main() {
    conf.Parse()

    log.Println(*v1, *v2)
}