I'm re-learning Go and building a program to create characters for role-playing
games. The program uses text files to build lists, and I'd like to let the user
change the lists. For example, a modern day Earth game would only have human
characters, but a Star Trek (TNG) game might have other species options, and a
Star Wars game might have an even different set.
The logic is:
1. If run as provided, the program uses a default directory and default text
files.
2. A user can modify one of the default text files to suit their needs.
3. A user can specify a custom directory for text files.
3.1. If a file of the same name as a default file exists in the custom
directory, the
program will use the custom file.
3.2. If a custom file does not exist, the program will use the default.
How would you feel about that, as a user?
How can the code and logic be improved?
Thanks!
Leam
###
1 // Package cli_fallthrough tests setting various vars.
2
3 package main
4
5 import (
6 "errors"
7 "flag"
8 "fmt"
9 "io/fs"
10 "os"
11 fp "path/filepath"
12 )
13
14 func exists(filepath string) bool {
15 if _, err := os.Stat(filepath); errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
16 return false
17 }
18 return true
19 }
20
21 func isDir(filepath string) bool {
22 // Need better logic here. What to do if there is an err?
23 dir, _ := os.Stat(filepath)
24 if dir.IsDir() {
25 return true
26 }
27 return false
28 }
29
30 func main() {
31 customData := false
32 datadir := "data"
33 datafiles := map[string]string{
34 "species": "species.txt",
35 "conflicts": "conflicts.txt",
36 "positives": "positives.txt",
37 }
38
39 custom_datadir := flag.String("custom", "custom", "custom directory for
data")
40 flag.Parse()
41
42 if exists(*custom_datadir) {
43 customData = isDir(*custom_datadir)
44 }
45
46 for k, v := range datafiles {
47 datafiles[k] = fp.Join(datadir, v)
48 if customData {
49 filepath := fp.Join(*custom_datadir, v)
50 if exists(filepath) && !isDir(filepath) {
51 datafiles[k] = filepath
52 }
53 }
54 _, err := os.Stat(datafiles[k])
55 if os.IsNotExist(err) {
56 fmt.Println(err)
57 }
58 fmt.Printf("using %s.\n", datafiles[k])
59 }
60 }
###
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