Go Package io

External

• https://golang.org/pkg/io/
• https://golang.org/pkg/io/ioutil/

Internal

• Standard Library

Overview

The io package consists of a few functions, but mostly interfaces used by other packages.

Reader

https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader

An interface that exposes Read().

Readers can be used to unmarshall JSON into structs as shown here: Template:JSON in Go

Writer

https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Writer

ReadCloser

An interface that exposes basic Read() and Close() methods. The http.Request body is a ReadCloser. See Reader.