I'm trying to host a Go app on the Google Cloud Platform and I need it to do some file writing. GCP doesn't let you do file writing directly in the App Engine, but requires you to use a Bucket.
From their documentation, you can access the buckets in PHP like so
$default_bucket = CloudStorageTools::getDefaultGoogleStorageBucketName();
$fp = fopen("gs://${default_bucket}/hello_default_stream.txt", 'w');
fwrite($fp, $newFileContent);
fclose($fp);
Is there a Golang equivalent for this?
As shared by Daz on the first comment, there's an intro on how to do this on the docs for Standard. This uses the cloud.google.com/go/storage
library, although you could also use the superseded google.golang.org/appengine/blobstore
(as also explained in the docs).
With those docs, you could simplify them until you get the following code (tested it and works as expected):
package minimal_gcs
import (
s "cloud.google.com/go/storage"
a "google.golang.org/appengine"
h "net/http"
)
func init() {
h.HandleFunc("/", func(w h.ResponseWriter, r *h.Request) {
cx := a.NewContext(r)
c, _ := s.NewClient(cx)
wr := c.Bucket("<bucket_id>").Object("<object_id>").NewWriter(cx)
_, _ = wr.Write([]byte("Hello World!!1"))
_ = wr.Close()
})
}
Note that this is really bad code (no error handling, ...), but I think it's useful to show the basic steps to handle GCS files within GAE standard using Go.