Go tools cheatsheet

Go tools

Go cross-platform compile

goxc

A build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling, packaging and deployment

goxc -d=build -pv=0.1.0

See https://github.com/laher/goxc

Word count

cnwordcount

Count Chinese characters in a file.

$ cnwordcount -f file.md
file.md 12

See https://github.com/rootsongjc/cnwordcount

Type transfer

JSON to go

JSON

{"a":"11","b":"23"}

Go

type AutoGenerated struct {
	A string `json:"a"`
	B string `json:"b"`
}

See https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

CURL to go

CURL

curl https://api.example.com/surprise \
     -u banana:coconuts \
     -d "sample data"

Go

// Generated by curl-to-Go: https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go

body := strings.NewReader(`sample data`)
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.example.com/surprise", body)
if err != nil {
	// handle err
}
req.SetBasicAuth("banana", "coconuts")
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	// handle err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

see https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/