gorram ^_(WIP)

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It's like go run for any go function.

Automagically understands how to produce an interface from the command line into a Go function.

Examples

Pretty print JSON:

$ echo '{ "foo" : "bar" }' | gorram encoding/json.Indent "" $'\t'
{
    "foo" : "bar"
}

Calculate a sha256 sum:

$ gorram crypto/sha256.Sum256 foo.gz

abcdef012345678

How it works

The first time you run Gorram with a specific function name, Gorram analyzes the package function and generates a file for use with go run. Gorram intelligently converts stdin and/or cli arguments into arguments for the function. Output is converted similarly to stdout. The code is cached in a local directory so that later runs don't incur the generation overhead.

Heuristics

By default, Gorram just turns CLI args into function args and prints out the return value of a function using fmt's %v. However, there are some special heuristics that it uses to be smarter about inputs and outputs, based on common go idioms.

For example:

usage:
$ cat foo.zip | gorram crypto/sha1.Sum
or
$ gorram crypto/sha1.Sum foo.zip

function:
// crypto/sha1
func Sum(data []byte) [Size]byte

Gorram understands functions that take a single slice of bytes (or an io.Reader) should read from stdin, or if an argument is specified, the argument is treated as a filename to be read.

Return values that are an array of bytes are understood to be intended to be printed with fmt's %x, so that you get 2c37424d58 instead of [44 55 66 77 88].

usage:
$ gorram encoding/json.Indent foo.json "" $'\t'
or
$ cat foo.json | gorram encoding/json.Indent "" $'\t'

function:
// encoding/json
func Indent(dst *bytes.Buffer, src []byte, prefix, indent string) error

Gorram understands that functions with a src argument that is an io.Reader or []bytes and a dst argument that is a []byte, *bytes.Buffer, or io.Writer will read from stdin (or use an argument as a file to open), and write what is written to dst to stdout.

Gorram understands that if the function returns a non-nil error, the error should be written to stderr, the program exits with a non-zero exit status, and nothing is written to stdout.

Gorram understands that prefix and indent are arguments that need to be specified in the command line.

usage:
$ gorram math.Cos 25

function:
// math
func Cos(x float64) float64

Gorram understands how to convert CLI arguments using the stringconv.Parse* functions, and will print outputs with fmt.Printf("%v\n", val).