Introduction

This package is adopt from http://code.google.com/p/goconf/ And porting it to Go 1 spec.

INSTALL

assume your local package path is $HOME/go:

export GOPATH=$HOME/go

# method 1:
go get github.com/dlintw/goconf
go test github.com/dlintw/goconf # test it

# method 2:
cd $GOPATH/src
hg clone https://dlintw@github.com/dlintw/goconf.git
cd goconf
make
make test # test it

USAGE

sample usage:

import "github.com/dlintw/goconf"

NOTE: All section names and options are case insensitive. All values are case sensitive.

Example 1

Config:

host = something.com
port = 443
active = true
compression = off

Code:

c, err := goconf.ReadConfigFile("something.config")
c.GetString("default", "host") // return something.com
c.GetInt("default", "port") // return 443
c.GetBool("default", "active") // return true
c.GetBool("default", "compression") // return false

Example 2

Config:

[default]
host = something.com
port = 443
active = true
compression = off

[service-1]
compression = on

[service-2]
port = 444

Code:

c, err := goconf.ReadConfigFile("something.config")
c.GetBool("default", "compression") // returns false
c.GetBool("service-1", "compression") // returns true
c.GetBool("service-2", "compression") // returns GetError