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while working with image files, I needed a simple way to analyze content of a picture; so I wrote this tool that “walks” inside a PNG file and reports all the chunks seen; this is intended to be expanded with more features in a future. package main import ( "encoding/binary" "fmt" "io" "os" ) type chunk struct { Length uint32 ChunkType [4]byte } func main() { if len(os.Args) != 2 { fmt.Printf("Usage: %s filename.png\n", os.Args[0]) os.Exit(1) } f, err := os.Open(os.Args[1]) if err != nil { panic(err) } defer f.Close() header := make([]byte, 8) _, err = f.Read(header) fmt.Printf("header: %v\n", header) if err != nil { panic(err) } var data chunk var offset int64 offset = 8 for { err = binary.Read(f, binary.BigEndian, &data) if err != nil { if err == io.EOF { break } panic(err) } fmt.Printf("Offset: %d chunk len=%d, type: %s\n", offset, data.Length, string(data.ChunkType[:4])) f.Seek(int64(data.Length+4), io.SeekCurrent) offset += int64(data.Length) + 4 } } usage: ...

This is an example of using goproxy, a fast and robust multithread proxy engine to develop an HTTP proxy that rewrites content on the fly, with multiple search and substitutions. It can be useful for debugging and other less noble (but useful) purposes … // rewriting_proxy project main.go package main import ( "bytes" "flag" "io/ioutil" "log" "net/http" "github.com/elazarl/goproxy" ) var replacements = []struct { from []byte to []byte }{ {[]byte("#e8ecec"), []byte("Red")}, // ugly colors!! {[]byte("Comic Sans MS"), []byte("Lucida Sans Unicode")}, // for eyes sanity {[]byte("Java "), []byte("Golang ")}, // just joking } func myHandler(resp *http.Response, ctx *goproxy.ProxyCtx) *http.Response { readBody, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body) if err != nil { //TODO handle read error gracefully return resp } resp.Body.Close() for _, elem := range replacements { readBody = bytes.Replace(readBody, elem.from, elem.to, -1) } resp.Body = ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(readBody)) return resp } func main() { verbose := flag.Bool("v", true, "should every proxy request be logged to stdout") proxy := goproxy.NewProxyHttpServer() proxy.Verbose = *verbose proxy.OnResponse().DoFunc(myHandler) log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8081", proxy)) }

I want to keep under control a system where each user has an amount of filesystem quota reserved; in particular I would like to get notified if and when a user exceeds some treshold. Since I already have Monit in place in the server, I took the chance to write a small Go utility in order to retrieve the quota percentage. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 // quotachecker.go package main import ( "os" "os/exec" "regexp" "strconv" "strings" ) func main() { //a fake implementation, just for testing purpose //cmd := exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", "cat fakequota.txt") cmd := exec.Command("/usr/bin/repquota", "-a") stdout, err := cmd.Output() if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } re, err := regexp.Compile("^[[:alnum:]]+\\s+--\\s+\\d+\\s+\\d+") if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } percent_max := 0 result := strings.Split(string(stdout), "\n") for _, line := range result { match := re.MatchString(line) if !match { continue } fields := strings.Fields(line) spaceused, err := strconv.ParseInt(fields[2], 10, 64) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } spacetotal, err := strconv.ParseInt(fields[4], 10, 64) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } if spacetotal == 0 { continue } //calculate max percent used percent := int(100 * spaceused / spacetotal) if percent > percent_max { percent_max = int(percent) } } os.Exit(percent_max) } This is also an example on how to run external programs in Go and filter the output using regular expressions. ...

Following with the GO standard library exploration, I’ve written a toy example for using the CGI features. Native GoLang CGI web applications are very fast and can be useful for example in embedded systems, or in cheap web hosting where is not possible to run custom HTTP servers. The solution has some weak points, starting from lock management, but is only presented as a proof of concept and not for real use cases. ...