Source file src/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  //
     7  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, the same functionality is now provided
     8  // by package [io] or package [os], and those implementations
     9  // should be preferred in new code.
    10  // See the specific function documentation for details.
    11  package ioutil
    12  
    13  import (
    14  	"io"
    15  	"io/fs"
    16  	"os"
    17  	"slices"
    18  	"strings"
    19  )
    20  
    21  // ReadAll reads from r until an error or EOF and returns the data it read.
    22  // A successful call returns err == nil, not err == EOF. Because ReadAll is
    23  // defined to read from src until EOF, it does not treat an EOF from Read
    24  // as an error to be reported.
    25  //
    26  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls [io.ReadAll].
    27  func ReadAll(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
    28  	return io.ReadAll(r)
    29  }
    30  
    31  // ReadFile reads the file named by filename and returns the contents.
    32  // A successful call returns err == nil, not err == EOF. Because ReadFile
    33  // reads the whole file, it does not treat an EOF from Read as an error
    34  // to be reported.
    35  //
    36  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls [os.ReadFile].
    37  func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
    38  	return os.ReadFile(filename)
    39  }
    40  
    41  // WriteFile writes data to a file named by filename.
    42  // If the file does not exist, WriteFile creates it with permissions perm
    43  // (before umask); otherwise WriteFile truncates it before writing, without changing permissions.
    44  //
    45  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls [os.WriteFile].
    46  func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm fs.FileMode) error {
    47  	return os.WriteFile(filename, data, perm)
    48  }
    49  
    50  // ReadDir reads the directory named by dirname and returns
    51  // a list of fs.FileInfo for the directory's contents,
    52  // sorted by filename. If an error occurs reading the directory,
    53  // ReadDir returns no directory entries along with the error.
    54  //
    55  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, [os.ReadDir] is a more efficient and correct choice:
    56  // it returns a list of [fs.DirEntry] instead of [fs.FileInfo],
    57  // and it returns partial results in the case of an error
    58  // midway through reading a directory.
    59  //
    60  // If you must continue obtaining a list of [fs.FileInfo], you still can:
    61  //
    62  //	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dirname)
    63  //	if err != nil { ... }
    64  //	infos := make([]fs.FileInfo, 0, len(entries))
    65  //	for _, entry := range entries {
    66  //		info, err := entry.Info()
    67  //		if err != nil { ... }
    68  //		infos = append(infos, info)
    69  //	}
    70  func ReadDir(dirname string) ([]fs.FileInfo, error) {
    71  	f, err := os.Open(dirname)
    72  	if err != nil {
    73  		return nil, err
    74  	}
    75  	list, err := f.Readdir(-1)
    76  	f.Close()
    77  	if err != nil {
    78  		return nil, err
    79  	}
    80  	slices.SortFunc(list, func(a, b os.FileInfo) int {
    81  		return strings.Compare(a.Name(), b.Name())
    82  	})
    83  	return list, nil
    84  }
    85  
    86  // NopCloser returns a ReadCloser with a no-op Close method wrapping
    87  // the provided Reader r.
    88  //
    89  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls [io.NopCloser].
    90  func NopCloser(r io.Reader) io.ReadCloser {
    91  	return io.NopCloser(r)
    92  }
    93  
    94  // Discard is an io.Writer on which all Write calls succeed
    95  // without doing anything.
    96  //
    97  // Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this value is simply [io.Discard].
    98  var Discard io.Writer = io.Discard
    99  

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