Updated answer for 2015 & beyond: import ( “encoding/xml” “golang.org/x/net/html/charset” ) reader := bytes.NewReader(theXml) decoder := xml.NewDecoder(reader) decoder.CharsetReader = charset.NewReaderLabel err = decoder.Decode(&parsed)
Your struct fields are not exported. This is because they start with a lowercase letter. EntryCount // <— Exported entryCount // <— Not exported When I say “not exported”, I mean they are not visible outside of your package. Your package can happily access them because they are scoped locally to it. As for the … Read more
This is very easy, Just like C. fmt.Println(“\””)
D and Go will probably just become as popular as Python and Ruby are today. They each fill a niche, and even though D was supposed to be a full-fledged replacement of C++, it probably will never acquire enough mass to push C++ away. Not to mention that they both aren’t stable/mature enough, and it’s … Read more
I think there are many many many options. A few of which are: If your project is only focused on supervising rhino horn you could name your project rhino-horn-supervisor and not package anything just have flat top level files main.go, hornoutput.go, or w/e If supervising rhino horn is one component of a larger application there … Read more
The issue isn’t modules so much as GOPATH. There’s a github issue thread that discusses this in more detail: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26827 That thread has evolved a workaround that uses a docker container to run a godoc server with GOPATH set to the base of your dev tree. That godoc server will serve docs for all of … Read more
is there a canonical way to generate documentation for offline use even using godoc? Go 1.12 (February 2019) is clearer on that: godoc and go doc In Go 1.12, godoc no longer has a command-line interface and is only a web server. Users should use go doc for command-line help output instead. go doc now … Read more
SQL has different null values than Golang. If you look at the definition of sql.NullString then this is what you get: type NullString struct { String string Valid bool // Valid is true if String is not NULL } As you can see, sql.NullString is a way to represent null string coming from SQL (which … Read more