How to handle configuration in Go [closed]

Answer 1

Another option is to use TOML, which is an INI-like format created by Tom Preston-Werner. I built a Go parser for it that is extensively tested. You can use it like other options proposed here. For example, if you have this TOML data in something.toml

Age = 198
Cats = [ "Cauchy", "Plato" ]
Pi = 3.14
Perfection = [ 6, 28, 496, 8128 ]
DOB = 1987-07-05T05:45:00Z

Then you can load it into your Go program with something like

type Config struct {
    Age int
    Cats []string
    Pi float64
    Perfection []int
    DOB time.Time
}

var conf Config
if _, err := toml.DecodeFile("something.toml", &conf); err != nil {
    // handle error
}