How to handle configuration in Go [closed]

Question

I'm new at Go programming, and I'm wondering: what is the preferred way to handle configuration parameters for a Go program (the kind of stuff one might use properties files or ini files for, in other contexts)?

Answer 1

I wrote a simple ini config library in golang.

https://github.com/c4pt0r/cfg

goroutine-safe, easy to use

package cfg
import (
    "testing"
)

func TestCfg(t *testing.T) {
    c := NewCfg("test.ini")
    if err := c.Load() ; err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
    c.WriteInt("hello", 42)
    c.WriteString("hello1", "World")

    v, err := c.ReadInt("hello", 0)
    if err != nil || v != 42 {
        t.Error(err)
    }

    v1, err := c.ReadString("hello1", "")
    if err != nil || v1 != "World" {
        t.Error(err)
    }

    if err := c.Save(); err != nil {
        t.Error(err)
    }
}

===================Update=======================

Recently I need an INI parser with section support, and I write a simple package:

github.com/c4pt0r/cfg

u can parse INI like using "flag" package:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "github.com/c4pt0r/ini"
)

var conf = ini.NewConf("test.ini")

var (
    v1 = conf.String("section1", "field1", "v1")
    v2 = conf.Int("section1", "field2", 0)
)

func main() {
    conf.Parse()

    log.Println(*v1, *v2)
}