Re: [go-nuts] Go's equivalent of Java's ByteBuffer?

[Dave Cheney]

Have you seen this page
http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SliceTricks ? It should be
simple, and lighter weight to use a []byte rather than re implementing
Java's ByteBuffer class.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:50 PM, <robby.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the middle of porting an old Java application that makes an extensive
> amount of use with it's ByteBuffer class. (namely get/put Int/Float/Short).
>
> Is there a package within Go's ecosystem that I can use to port this
> against, or would it be better to wrap ByteBuffer and re-implement each of
> those methods?
>
> Sorry if this seems basic, but if it's buried in a package, I couldn't find
> it.
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[Andrew Wilkins]

On Saturday, 16 February 2013 14:50:15 UTC+8, robby.j...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of porting an old Java application that makes an extensive amount of use with it's ByteBuffer class. (namely get/put Int/Float/Short). 

Is there a package within Go's ecosystem that I can use to port this against, or would it be better to wrap ByteBuffer and re-implement each of those methods?

To en/decode numbers to/from byte sequences, you should look at encoding/binary (http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/binary/)

There are other encoding packages - just look under "encoding" in the package list.

There's also the bytes package, which contains a type called Buffer: http://golang.org/pkg/bytes/#Buffer.

A *bytes.Buffer is an io.Writer/io.Reader, so it can be used in encoding/binary's Write/Read functions.

Cheers,

Andrew