This package provides sugar methods for traversing Go maps.

gosexy/dig basically turns this long statement:

foo := myMap["a"].(map[string]interface{})["b"].(map[string]interface{})["c"].(uint64)

Into this short and easier-to-understand one:

foo := dig.Uint64(myMap, "a", "b", "c")

Useful when you depend on external services, such as web-APIs, and you don't really want to handle all possible error cases or possible panic points caused by sudden changes on the expected JSON.

go get -u menteslibres.net/gosexy/dig

Usage is really simple, start with a map[string]interface{} and define which route to follow, take this testMap example:

testMap := map[string]interface{}{
	"first": map[string]interface{}{
		"first.1": map[string]string{
			"col.1": "a",
			"col.2": "b",
			"col.3": "c",
		},
	},
	"second": map[string]map[string]string{
		"second.2": map[string]string{
			"col.4": "d",
			"col.5": "e",
			"col.6": "f",
		},
	},
}

Suppose you want to get the value of the element with key "col.4". You'll need a route, the route of a node is defined as the array of map keys needed to be traversed in order to get to the node, in the above example the route would be: second > second.2 > col.4, in that specific order.

Now suppose you expect "col.4" to be a string, then you'd use dig.String() to get the value.

// s = "d"
s := dig.String(&testMap, "second", "second.2", "col.4")

Note that you're passing a pointer to map (&testMap) instead of a map.

There are more sugar methods with similar functionality, such as dig.Uint64(), dig.Float64(), dig.Interface(), etc. all these methods will attempt to convert the node data type into the expected Go type.

The dig.String() function and friends are just wrappers around dig.Get(), and you can also use dig.Get() to get a node value, it will also produce an error value if something goes wrong.

var s string
err := dig.Get(&testMap, &s, "second", "second.2", "col.4")

Now suppose you'd like to set the value of "col.5", you'd use the dig.Set() function:

dig.Set(&testMap, "modified", "second", "second.2", "col.4")

And finally, if you're ever in the need of creating a route on a map, you could use dig.Dig() like this:

var i int

m := map[string]interface{}{}

// Create a path.
dig.Dig(&m, "foo", "bar", "baz")

// Set the value 42.
dig.Set(&m, 42, "foo", "bar", "baz")

// Get the value, expecting 42.
dig.Get(&m, &i, "foo", "bar", "baz")

if i != 42 {
	t.Errorf("Test failed.")
}

Please consult the online documentation to get a list of all available methods.

See the online docs and the project page.

Copyright (c) 2013 José Carlos Nieto, https://menteslibres.net/xiam

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