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# go-toml
Go library for the [TOML](https://github.com/mojombo/toml) format.
This library supports TOML version
[v0.4.0](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/blob/master/versions/en/toml-v0.4.0.md)
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## Features
Go-toml provides the following features for using data parsed from TOML documents:
* Load TOML documents from files and string data
* Easily navigate TOML structure using TomlTree
* Line & column position data for all parsed elements
* Query support similar to JSON-Path
* Syntax errors contain line and column numbers
Go-toml is designed to help cover use-cases not covered by reflection-based TOML parsing:
* Semantic evaluation of parsed TOML
* Informing a user of mistakes in the source document, after it has been parsed
* Programatic handling of default values on a case-by-case basis
* Using a TOML document as a flexible data-store
## Import
import "github.com/pelletier/go-toml"
## Usage
### Example
Say you have a TOML file that looks like this:
```toml
[postgres]
user = "pelletier"
password = "mypassword"
```
Read the username and password like this:
```go
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/pelletier/go-toml"
)
config, err := toml.LoadFile("config.toml")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error ", err.Error())
} else {
// retrieve data directly
user := config.Get("postgres.user").(string)
password := config.Get("postgres.password").(string)
// or using an intermediate object
configTree := config.Get("postgres").(*toml.TomlTree)
user = configTree.Get("user").(string)
password = configTree.Get("password").(string)
fmt.Println("User is ", user, ". Password is ", password)
// show where elements are in the file
fmt.Println("User position: %v", configTree.GetPosition("user"))
fmt.Println("Password position: %v", configTree.GetPosition("password"))
// use a query to gather elements without walking the tree
results, _ := config.Query("$..[user,password]")
for ii, item := range results.Values() {
fmt.Println("Query result %d: %v", ii, item)
}
}
```
## Documentation
The documentation and additional examples are available at
[godoc.org](http://godoc.org/github.com/pelletier/go-toml).
## Tools
Go-toml provides two handy command line tools:
* `tomll`: Reads TOML files and lint them.
```
go install github.com/pelletier/go-toml/cmd/tomll
tomll --help
```
* `tomljson`: Reads a TOML file and outputs its JSON representation.
```
go install github.com/pelletier/go-toml/cmd/tomljson
tomljson --help
```
## Contribute
Feel free to report bugs and patches using GitHub's pull requests system on
[pelletier/go-toml](https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml). Any feedback would be
much appreciated!
### Run tests
You have to make sure two kind of tests run:
1. The Go unit tests
2. The TOML examples base
You can run both of them using `./test.sh`.
## License
The MIT License (MIT). Read [LICENSE](LICENSE).