How to read a YAML file - go

Question

I have an issue with reading a YAML file. I think it's something in the file structure but I can't figure out what.
YAML file:
conf:
hits:5
time:5000000
code:
type conf struct {
hits int64 `yaml:"hits"`
time int64 `yaml:"time"`
}
func (c *conf) getConf() *conf {
yamlFile, err := ioutil.ReadFile("conf.yaml")
if err != nil {
log.Printf("yamlFile.Get err #%v ", err)
}
err = yaml.Unmarshal(yamlFile, c)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Unmarshal: %v", err)
}
return c
}

Answer 1

your yaml file must be
hits: 5
time: 5000000
your code should look like this:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
)
type conf struct {
Hits int64 `yaml:"hits"`
Time int64 `yaml:"time"`
}
func (c *conf) getConf() *conf {
yamlFile, err := ioutil.ReadFile("conf.yaml")
if err != nil {
log.Printf("yamlFile.Get err #%v ", err)
}
err = yaml.Unmarshal(yamlFile, c)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Unmarshal: %v", err)
}
return c
}
func main() {
var c conf
c.getConf()
fmt.Println(c)
}
the main error was capital letter for your struct.

Answer 2

Example
Using an upgraded version 3 of yaml package.
An example conf.yaml file:
conf:
hits: 5
time: 5000000
camelCase: sometext
The main.go file:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
)
type myData struct {
Conf struct {
Hits int64
Time int64
CamelCase string `yaml:"camelCase"`
}
}
func readConf(filename string) (*myData, error) {
buf, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
c := &myData{}
err = yaml.Unmarshal(buf, c)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("in file %q: %w", filename, err)
}
return c, err
}
func main() {
c, err := readConf("conf.yaml")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%#v", c)
}
Running instructions (in case it's the first time you step out of stdlib):
cat conf.yaml
go mod init example.com/whatever
go get gopkg.in/yaml.v3
cat go.sum
go run .
About The yaml:"field"
The tags (like yaml:"field") are optional for all-lowercase yaml key identifiers. For demonstration the above example parses an extra camel case identifier which does require such a tag.
Corner Case: JSON+YAML
Confusingly, the useful lowercasing behavior of yaml package is not seen in the standard json package. Do you have a data structure which is sometimes encoded to JSON and sometimes to YAML? If so, consider specifying both JSON tags and YAML tags on literally every field. Verbose, but reduces mistakes. Example below.
type myData struct {
Conf conf `yaml:"conf" json:"conf"`
}
type conf struct {
Hits int64 `yaml:"hits" json:"hits"`
Time int64 `yaml:"time" json:"time"`
CamelCase string `yaml:"camelCase" json:"camelCase"`
}

Answer 3

package main
import (
"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
)
type someConf struct {
AccessKeyID string `yaml:"access_key_id"`
//...
}
func getConf(file string, cnf interface{}) error {
yamlFile, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
if err == nil {
err = yaml.Unmarshal(yamlFile, cnf)
}
return err
}
func main() {
cfg := &awsConf{}
if err := getConf("conf.yml", cfg); err != nil {
log.Panicln(err)
}
}
shortest getConf ever