Bencode implementation in Go
$ go get github.com/marksamman/bencode
bencode.Encode takes a map[string]interface{} as argument and returns a byte array. Example:
package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/marksamman/bencode" ) func main() { dict := make(map[string]interface{}) dict["string key"] = "hello world" dict["int key"] = 123456 fmt.Printf("bencode encoded dict: %s\n", bencode.Encode(dict)) }
bencode.Decode takes an io.Reader as argument and returns (map[string]interface{}, error). Example:
package main import ( "fmt" "log" "os" "github.com/marksamman/bencode" ) func main() { file, err := os.Open(os.Args[1]) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } defer file.Close() dict, err := bencode.Decode(file) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Printf("string: %s\n", dict["string key"].(string)) fmt.Printf("int: %d\n", dict["int key"].(int64)) }