## Introduction **config** is a simple golang library and designed to read configurations from JSON, Yaml files, environment variables and command line. **config** depends on [go-yaml](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml) to anlayze Yaml file and uses built-in golang library to handle JSON file. ## Installation 1. Install [Yaml](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml) library first: ``` go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2 ``` 2. Install **config** library: ``` go get github.com/eschao/config ``` ## Usage #### 1. Defines **default** values **config** library supports defining a default value for structure members by using **default** keyword in structure tags ```golang type Log struct { Path string `default:"/var/logs"` Level string `default:"debug"` } ``` After that, calls ```config.ParseDefault(interface{})``` to set it on structure instance, example codes as the below: ```golang logConfig := Log{} config.ParseDefault(&logConfig) ``` #### 2. Reads configurations from JSON file Like analyzing JSON object from file, reading configurations from JSON file is also simple: ```golang type Database struct { Host string `json:"host"` Port int `json:"port"` Username string `json:"username" default:"admin"` Password string `json:"password" default:"admin"` Log Log `json:"log"` } ``` Parsing configurations from JSON: ```golang dbConfig := Database{} config.ParseConfigFile(&dbConfig, "config.json") ```