Go Recipes

Internal

• Go
• Standard Library

Files

• Reading a file with os primitives: playground/go/files/read-file.go
• Readinga file with io/ioutil primitives: playground/go/files/read-file-2.go
• Writing a file with os primitives: playground/go/files/write-file.go
• Writing a file with io/ioutil primitives: playground/go/files/write-file-2.go
• Reading a directory with os primitives: playground/go/files/read-dir.go
• Walking a directory with path/filepath primitives: playground/go/files/walk-dir.go

Network

• TCP client and server with net primitives: playground/go/network/tcp-server.go, playground/go/network/tcp-client.go,
• HTTP server with net/http primitives: playground/go/network/http-server.go
• HTTP client with net/http and ioutil primitives: playground/go/network/http-client.go More HTTP details in "Go in Action" page 65.

• RPC - Introducing Go page 89

Command Line Parsing

Go Command Line Parsing

Concurrency

• Unbuffered channel: playground/go/concurrency/unbuffered-channel.go
• Using a waitGroup to wait for goroutines to finish before exiting main(): playground/go/concurrency/waitGroup.go

Logging

Changing the Logging Device

Sleeping

sleep

Miscellaneous

• Using channels to monitor the amount of time a program is running and time it out, signals: "Go in Action" Section 7.1 Runner (page 179), playground/go/go-in-action/runner

Conventions and Idioms

• Name factory functions New. The factory functions should return a value or a pointer depending on the primitive nature of the type.