package main import ( "fmt" "gopkg.in/yaml.v2" "log" "io/ioutil" "os" "github.com/codegangsta/cli" "strings" ) func main() { app := cli.NewApp() app.Name = "yaml" app.Usage = "command line tool for reading and writing yaml" app.Commands = []cli.Command{ { Name: "read", Aliases: []string{"r"}, Usage: "read \n\te.g.: yaml read sample.json a.b.c\n\t(default) reads a property from a given yaml file", Action: read_property, }, } app.Action = read_property app.Run(os.Args) } func read_property(c *cli.Context) { var parsed_data map[interface{}]interface{} read_yaml(c, &parsed_data) var path = c.Args()[1] var paths = strings.Split(path, ".") fmt.Println(read(parsed_data, paths[0], paths[1:len(paths)])) } func read_yaml(c *cli.Context, parsed_data *map[interface{}]interface{}) { if len(c.Args()) == 0 { log.Fatalf("Must provide filename") } var raw_data = read_file(c.Args()[0]) if len(c.Args()) == 1 { fmt.Println(string(raw_data[:])) os.Exit(0) } err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(raw_data), &parsed_data) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("error: %v", err) } } func read_file(filename string) []byte { var raw_data, read_error = ioutil.ReadFile(filename) if read_error != nil { log.Fatalf("error: %v", read_error) } return raw_data } func read(context map[interface{}]interface{}, head string, tail []string) interface{} { value := context[head] if (len(tail) > 0) { return read(value.(map[interface{}]interface{}), tail[0], tail[1:len(tail)]) } else { return value } }