How to read a YAML file

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         


        

Answer 1

An example conf.yaml file:

conf:
  hits: 5
  time: 5000000
  camelCase: Just a name :)

The main.go file:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"

    "gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
)

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: %v", filename, err)
    }

    return c, nil
}

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):

go mod init example.com/whatever
go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2
cat go.sum
go run .

The tags (yaml:"conf" etc.) are optional for any all-lowercase yaml key identifiers. I've included one for a camelCase identifier.