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gotic

Converts files files into go code.

Concept

Gotic is both, a library and an utility. The library gotic/fswraps ioutil.ReadFile(). The utility, gotic, takes one or more files and genaraates go code representing them (as one or more []byte{ ... })

Install

As usual: go get github.com/gchaincl/gotic

Usage

Let's say you have a program (main.go) that reads af file:

package main

import "github.com/gchaincl/gotic/fs"

func main() {
  f, err := fs.ReadFile("some/file")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  println(string(f))
}

Now, to embed some/file into your code, just run:

$ gotic some/file > main_gotic.go

Generated main_gotic.go will look like:

package main

import "github.com/gchaincl/gotic/fs"

func init() {
	fs.Add("some/file", []byte{ "\xff\xd8\xff\xe1 ..." })
}

That's all, as gotic has Added some/file, each call to fs.ReadFile(), will return the embedded []byte instead of actually read the file.