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Hi guys,
this is day 18 out of 100 days of code.

To get md5 sum of a file you crypto/md5 library and io/ioutil for reading files.

package main

import (
	"crypto/md5"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	if len(os.Args) <= 1 {
		log.Fatal("expected filename as parameter")
	}
	filename := os.Args[1]

	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("MD5 (%s) = %x\n", filename, md5.Sum(data))
}

Thanks!

Hi guys,
this is day 16 out of 100 days of code.

With help of http and ioutil packages file download and storage is quite easy task.

package main

import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://picsum.photos/200/300/?random"

	resp, err := http.Get(url)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	image, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	err = ioutil.WriteFile("./myimage.gif", image, 0644)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

In the example I am using Lorem Picsum service to get random image every run.

Happy coding!

Hi guys,
today is day 13 out of 100 days of code in go!

This time it is example of fetching issues from github and categorizing by created date.
To run example you need to install github issue searcher package from The Go Progamming Language book

go get gopl.io/ch4/github

Full code

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"time"

	"gopl.io/ch4/github"
)

func main() {
	result, err := github.SearchIssues(os.Args[1:])
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("%d issues:\n", result.TotalCount)
	var dateformat string
	for _, item := range result.Items {
		days := int(time.Since(item.CreatedAt).Hours()) / 24
		if days < 30 {
			dateformat = "less than a month old"
		} else if days < 365 {
			dateformat = "less than a year old"
		} else {
			dateformat = "more than a year old"
		}
		fmt.Printf("%s, #%-5d %9.9s %.55s\n", dateformat, item.Number, item.User.Login, item.Title)
	}
}

Happy coding!

Hi guys,
this is day 12 out of 100 days of code. I didn’t post for a while, because I did a small break for hackaton, but now I am back on track.

When you print a map using range function it will access elements in randomized order. So, if you want to print map in sorted order you have to sort keys first. See how:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"sort"
)

func main() {
	m := map[string]int{"A": 1, "B": 2, "AA": 1, "C": 3, "BBB": 2}

	//reverse keys and values of m map
	var mapKeys []string
	fmt.Print("Unsorted:\n")
	for k, v := range m {
		fmt.Printf("%s -> %d\n", k, v)
		mapKeys = append(mapKeys, k)
	}

	sort.Strings(mapKeys)
	fmt.Print("Sorted:\n")
	for _, v := range mapKeys {
		fmt.Printf("%s -> %d\n", v, m[v])
	}
}

Solution is to use additional array for keys and sort it in wished order.

Happy coding!

Hi guys,
this is day 11 out of 100 days of go coding.

This time it is very short demo of go maps and simple sort by map values. Note that the example below will not work correctly if values has duplicates.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"sort"
)

func main() {
        //init a map with strings keys and int values
	var m = make(map[string]int)
	m["Sun"] = 7
	m["Sat"] = 6
	m["Fri"] = 5
	m["Thu"] = 4
	m["Mon"] = 1
	m["Tue"] = 2
	m["Wed"] = 3

	//reverse keys and values of m map
	var days = make(map[int]string)
	//array of indexes for sorting
	var daykeys = make([]int, len(m))

	fmt.Print("Unsorted days of week\n")
	counter := 0
	for k, v := range m {
		fmt.Printf("%s -> %d\n", k, v)
		days[v] = k
		daykeys[counter] = v
		counter++
	}
	//sort indexes array here
	sort.Ints(daykeys)

	fmt.Print("Sorted days of week\n")
	for _, v := range daykeys {
		fmt.Printf("%s\n", days[v])
	}
}

I believe this code has a lot of room for optimization, so if you know how please write me in comments or ping me in twitter with your version.

Happy coding everyone!

Hi, this is day 9 out of 100 days of code in go.

Today I am playing with struct type. Struct is a go way to define custom types. Use it when standard types doesn’t suite you. Enough words, lets see code examples.

Classic example Employee type

// Employee - new type
type Employee struct {
	ID      int
	Name    string
	Manager *Employee //reference to itself 
}

ID and Name fields is quite obvious. Manager field is the same type as struct itself, so it must be a reference type and in our business logic will point to Manager data.

Lets create first employee

func main() {
	// Example of initializing new Employee
	var worker Employee
	worker.ID = 1
	worker.Name = "Petia Pyatochkin"
	PrintEmployee(worker)
}

// PrintEmployee - print data in nice format
func PrintEmployee(e Employee) {
	fmt.Printf("ID = %d\nName = %s\n", e.ID, e.Name)
}

Struct fields are accessible using dot notation.

Lets define a manager now and improve print function, so it will print Manger if such exist

func main() {
	// Example of initializing new struct data
	var worker Employee
	worker.ID = 1
	worker.Name = "Petia Pyatochkin"
	PrintEmployee(worker)

	// Struct can reference on it's own type
	//Lets define manager for an employee
	var manager Employee
	manager.ID = 2
	manager.Name = "Middle Level"
        //using pointer we create a reference to manager struct and keep hierachy of oranization
	worker.Manager = &manager
	PrintEmployee(worker)
}

// PrintEmployee - print data in nice format
func PrintEmployee(e Employee) {
	fmt.Printf("ID = %d\nName = %s\n", e.ID, e.Name)
	//if e.Manager is defined print manager data
	if e.Manager != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Manager of %s:\n", e.Name)
		//recursively go through managers tree
		PrintEmployee(*e.Manager)
		return
	}
	fmt.Print("----------\n\n")
}

New employee manager is created the same way as first worker variable. When using a reference to new manager variable we assign a manager to worker.

PrintEmployee function has some changes too. First it has new check if Manager reference is not nil and if so using recursion it prints Manager data.

Lets add another Employee, so we will have 3 level management organization

unc main() {
	// Example of initializing new struct data
	var worker Employee
	worker.ID = 1
	worker.Name = "Petia Pyatochkin"
	PrintEmployee(worker)

	// Struct can reference on it's own type
	//Lets define manager for an employee
	var manager Employee
	manager.ID = 2
	manager.Name = "Middle Level"
	//using pointer we create a reference to manager struct and keep hierachy of oranization
	worker.Manager = &manager
	PrintEmployee(worker)

	//define fields ID and Name using struct literals
	var cto = Employee{ID: 3, Name: "cto"}
	manager.Manager = &cto
	//should print 3 level org structure
	PrintEmployee(worker)
}

Note that new cto variable is using struct literals to define fields values in variable initialization step.

Output of above will be 3 level organization structure:

$ go run struct.go
ID = 1
Name = Petia Pyatochkin
----------

ID = 1
Name = Petia Pyatochkin
Manager of Petia Pyatochkin:
ID = 2
Name = Middle Level
----------

ID = 1
Name = Petia Pyatochkin
Manager of Petia Pyatochkin:
ID = 2
Name = Middle Level
Manager of Middle Level:
ID = 3
Name = cto
----------

That’s what you need to know about struct type to use it efficiently in you go programs.

Happy coding!

Source code at Github.