dmotylev / goproperties

Simple library for reading .properties (java properties) files for Go

Goproperties

Package implements read operations of .properties source.

Documentation

The Goproperties API reference is available on GoDoc.

Installation

Install Goproperties using the go get command:

go get -u github.com/dmotylev/goproperties

Usage

Example:

package main

import "github.com/dmotylev/goproperties"

func main() {
	p, _ := properties.Load("credentials")
	username := p.String("username","demo")
	password := p.String("password","demo")

	// ... use given credentials

	_, _ = username, password
}

Look at properties_test.go for more usage hints.

License

For the license see LICENSE.

goproperties's Issues

Key containing colon is a valid use case for properties files?

While experimenting with Goproperties to parse a VMware VMX file, I found out it does not parse keys that contain colons such as: ide1:0.devicetype="cdrom-image"

Is supporting colons in the key within the scope of this package? if so, I would be happy to provide a patch.

Line buffer too small

I have properties files that fail to load because the value length exceeds the hard coded 1024. See lines 309 and 310.

Please make this configurable (or use slices?).

My workaround is to modify the lines to:

n.buffer = make([]byte, 2048)
n.lineBuffer = make([]byte, 2048) 

Writing properties

Any chance you'll be working on Write function(s) for this project in the near future?

Filepath as value of a property in windows platform

Property which sets the value of a filepath in windows platform would be like :

custom_path = C:\Users\abc

But value of this property obtained using Load method would be like C:Usersabc as it escapes the slashes.

Escaping slashes in the value of the property works. But this is not standard way of setting path in a properties file. (windows)

custom_path = C:\\Users\\abc

Is there a workaround for it? Any comments?

Line buffer too small

I have properties files that fail to load because the value length exceeds the hard coded 1024. See lines 309 and 310.

Please make this configurable (or use slices?).

My workaround is to modify the lines to:

n.buffer = make([]byte, 2048)
n.lineBuffer = make([]byte, 2048) 

gocheck has different location

The GoDoc should say

go get -u launchpad.net/gocheck

for loading the package