Go Notes

These are things I want to remember in Go

Format Strings

• %+v is introduced by Dave Cheney's errors package. A common use case:

if err != nil {
    // Add a stack
    err = errors.WithStack(err)
    log.Fatalf("%+v\n", err)
}

NOTE: I'm not sure this is the same as panic(err). Something to check

• %#v is equivalent to Python's repr function - it formats the data structure like it would look if you typed it in code.

s = NewMyStruct(param1, param2)
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", s)

Using logrus

logrus is a pretty nice logging library for go. It focuses on logging key-value pairs along with a message. This is super useful for me because 90% of the time I just want to see those values anyway.

NOTE: I need to test this code

package mypackage

import (
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

func myFunc() {
	log.WithFields(log.Fields{
		"sqlStatement": statement,
		"sqlArgs":      args,
	}).Debug("Oops")
}

package main

import (
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

func init() {
	log.SetLevel(log.DebugLevel)
}

func main() {
	myFunc()
}

Iterator type things in Go TODO

• PageDataIterator
• Scanner
• How to loop with it and for