Golang toolkit

A simple go module that provides commonly used go-tools

Features

• Random String Generator - Generates random string of n lenght based on these characters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_
• Files Upload - Upload files and generate random filenames using Random string Generator , it also support file size limits and file types customization
• Creating Directory - Create directories it they don't exist
• Generating Slugs - Generate slugs from a string
• Downloading Static Files - Download files and forces browser not to display such files
• Read JSON - provides quick way to read JSON
• Write JSON - provides quick way to read JSON
• Error JSON - produces a JSON encoded error repsonse
• Post JSON - pPosts JSON to a remote service

Installation

go get -u github.com/barcollin/toolkit

Examples

Random String Generation

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/barcollin/toolkit"
)

func main() {
	var tools toolkit.Tools

	s := tools.RandomString(20)

	fmt.Println("Random string:", s)

}

Creating a Directory if it doesn't exist

package main

import (
	"github.com/barcollin/toolkit"
)

func main() {
	var tools toolkit.Tools

	tools.CreateDirIfNotExist("./test-dir")
}

Slugifying a string

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/barcollin/toolkit"
)

func main() {
	toSlug := "NOW!!! is the time 123"

	var tools toolkit.Tools

	slugified, err := tools.Slugify(toSlug)
	if err != nil {
		log.Println(err)
	}

	log.Println(slugified)

}

Downloading a static file

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/barcollin/toolkit"
)

func main() {
	// get routes
	mux := routes()

	// start a server
	err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", mux)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

}

func routes() http.Handler {
	mux := http.NewServeMux()

	mux.Handle("/", http.StripPrefix("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("."))))
	mux.HandleFunc("/download", downloadFile)

	return mux

}

func downloadFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	t := toolkit.Tools{}
	t.DownloadStaticFile(w, r, "./files", "img.png", "puppy.png")
}