simdb

A simple json db in GO

I sometimes write programs for RaspberryPi using nodejs and use a json file as a data storage. There are so many libraries in nodejs to deal with json file as a data storage. I could'nt find a similar library in GO to use in GO based RPi projects. So decided to write one.

Keep in mind this library can be used in less data intensive applications. I normally use these kind of json data to store execution rules for sensors, etc.

Go Doc https://godoc.org/github.com/sonyarouje/simdb

What it does? This library enables to store, retrieve, update and delete data from the json db.

Usage Let's have a look at, how to store some data and manipulate them using simd.

package main

import db "github.com/sonyarouje/simdb"

type Customer struct {
	CustID string `json:"custid"`
	Name string `json:"name"`
	Address string `json:"address"`
	Contact Contact
}

type Contact struct {
	Phone string `json:"phone"`
	Email string `json:"email"`
}

//ID any struct that needs to persist should implement this function defined 
//in Entity interface.
func (c Customer) ID() (jsonField string, value interface{}) {
	value=c.CustID
	jsonField="custid"
	return
}

func main() {
    driver, err:=db.New("data")
    if err!=nil {
      panic(err)
    }
  
    customer:=Customer {
      CustID:"CUST1",
      Name:"sarouje",
      Address: "address",
      Contact: Contact {
        Phone:"45533355",
        Email:"someone@gmail.com",
      },
    }    
   }

  //creates a new Customer file inside the directory passed as the parameter to New()
  //if the Customer file already exist then insert operation will add the customer data to the array
  err=driver.Insert(customer)
  if err!=nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  //GET ALL Customer
  //opens the customer json file and filter all the customers with name sarouje.
  //AsEntity takes a pointer to Customer array and fills the result to it.
  //we can loop through the customers array and retireve the data.
  var customers []Customer
  err=driver.Open(Customer{}).Where("name","=","sarouje").Get().AsEntity(&customers)
  if err!=nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  //GET ONE Customer
  //First() will return the first record from the results 
  //AsEntity takes a pointer to Customer variable (not an array pointer)
  var customerFrist Customer
  err=driver.Open(Customer{}).Where("custid","=","CUST1").First().AsEntity(&customerFrist)
  if err!=nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  //Update function uses the ID() to get the Id field/value to find the record and update the data.
  customerFrist.Name="Sony Arouje"
  err=driver.Update(customerFrist)
  if err!=nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  //Delete
  toDel:=Customer{
     CustID:"CUST1",
  }
  err=driver.Delete(toDel)
}
  

Started as a library to learn GO.

Some of the codes to apply json filtering are borrowed from https://github.com/thedevsaddam/gojsonq