Source file src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
1 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5 // Package ioutil implements some I/O utility functions.
6 package ioutil
7
8 import (
9 "bytes"
10 "io"
11 "os"
12 "sort"
13 )
14
15 // readAll reads from r until an error or EOF and returns the data it read
16 // from the internal buffer allocated with a specified capacity.
17 func readAll(r io.Reader, capacity int64) (b []byte, err error) {
18 buf := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, capacity))
19 // If the buffer overflows, we will get bytes.ErrTooLarge.
20 // Return that as an error. Any other panic remains.
21 defer func() {
22 e := recover()
23 if e == nil {
24 return
25 }
26 if panicErr, ok := e.(error); ok && panicErr == bytes.ErrTooLarge {
27 err = panicErr
28 } else {
29 panic(e)
30 }
31 }()
32 _, err = buf.ReadFrom(r)
33 return buf.Bytes(), err
34 }
35
36 // ReadAll reads from r until an error or EOF and returns the data it read.
37 // A successful call returns err == nil, not err == EOF. Because ReadAll is
38 // defined to read from src until EOF, it does not treat an EOF from Read
39 // as an error to be reported.
40 func ReadAll(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
41 return readAll(r, bytes.MinRead)
42 }
43
44 // ReadFile reads the file named by filename and returns the contents.
45 // A successful call returns err == nil, not err == EOF. Because ReadFile
46 // reads the whole file, it does not treat an EOF from Read as an error
47 // to be reported.
48 func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
49 f, err := os.Open(filename)
50 if err != nil {
51 return nil, err
52 }
53 defer f.Close()
54 // It's a good but not certain bet that FileInfo will tell us exactly how much to
55 // read, so let's try it but be prepared for the answer to be wrong.
56 var n int64
57
58 if fi, err := f.Stat(); err == nil {
59 // Don't preallocate a huge buffer, just in case.
60 if size := fi.Size(); size < 1e9 {
61 n = size
62 }
63 }
64 // As initial capacity for readAll, use n + a little extra in case Size is zero,
65 // and to avoid another allocation after Read has filled the buffer. The readAll
66 // call will read into its allocated internal buffer cheaply. If the size was
67 // wrong, we'll either waste some space off the end or reallocate as needed, but
68 // in the overwhelmingly common case we'll get it just right.
69 return readAll(f, n+bytes.MinRead)
70 }
71
72 // WriteFile writes data to a file named by filename.
73 // If the file does not exist, WriteFile creates it with permissions perm;
74 // otherwise WriteFile truncates it before writing.
75 func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
76 f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, perm)
77 if err != nil {
78 return err
79 }
80 n, err := f.Write(data)
81 f.Close()
82 if err == nil && n < len(data) {
83 err = io.ErrShortWrite
84 }
85 return err
86 }
87
88 // byName implements sort.Interface.
89 type byName []os.FileInfo
90
91 func (f byName) Len() int { return len(f) }
92 func (f byName) Less(i, j int) bool { return f[i].Name() < f[j].Name() }
93 func (f byName) Swap(i, j int) { f[i], f[j] = f[j], f[i] }
94
95 // ReadDir reads the directory named by dirname and returns
96 // a list of sorted directory entries.
97 func ReadDir(dirname string) ([]os.FileInfo, error) {
98 f, err := os.Open(dirname)
99 if err != nil {
100 return nil, err
101 }
102 list, err := f.Readdir(-1)
103 f.Close()
104 if err != nil {
105 return nil, err
106 }
107 sort.Sort(byName(list))
108 return list, nil
109 }
110
111 type nopCloser struct {
112 io.Reader
113 }
114
115 func (nopCloser) Close() error { return nil }
116
117 // NopCloser returns a ReadCloser with a no-op Close method wrapping
118 // the provided Reader r.
119 func NopCloser(r io.Reader) io.ReadCloser {
120 return nopCloser{r}
121 }
122
123 type devNull int
124
125 // devNull implements ReaderFrom as an optimization so io.Copy to
126 // ioutil.Discard can avoid doing unnecessary work.
127 var _ io.ReaderFrom = devNull(0)
128
129 func (devNull) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
130 return len(p), nil
131 }
132
133 var blackHole = make([]byte, 8192)
134
135 func (devNull) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (n int64, err error) {
136 readSize := 0
137 for {
138 readSize, err = r.Read(blackHole)
139 n += int64(readSize)
140 if err != nil {
141 if err == io.EOF {
142 return n, nil
143 }
144 return
145 }
146 }
147 panic("unreachable")
148 }
149
150 // Discard is an io.Writer on which all Write calls succeed
151 // without doing anything.
152 var Discard io.Writer = devNull(0)