I'm making a function like ioutil.ReadDir() but recursively due I want all the files in folders and subfolders and ioutil.ReadDir() just do it in the specified folder but I don't know how to append items to an array of []os.FileInfo that I've created.
This is what I have:
func GetFilesRecursively(searchDirectory string) (foundFileList []os.FileInfo, errorGenerated error){
fileList := []os.FileInfo{}
allFilesAndFolders := []string{}
//Get all the files and directories
err := filepath.Walk(searchDirectory, func(path string, f os.FileInfo, err error) error {
allFilesAndFolders = append(allFilesAndFolders, path)
return nil
})
// Remove directories due those are also added into the array and we don't need them
for _, file := range allFilesAndFolders{
fileInfo, _ := os.Stat(file)
if (!fileInfo.Mode().IsDir()){
fileList = append(fileList, file) //error here!!
}
}
return fileList, err
}
The error is in the comments in the code snippet above
How could I do that?
You try to append a string to an array of os.FileInfo. That is a type error.
Here is a version of your code that does what you want and looks more Go-like, with shorter variable names, unnamed return types (their types perfectly decribe what they do) and using var
to create an empty slice.
func GetFilesRecursively(root string) ([]os.FileInfo, error) {
var files []os.FileInfo
// walk all directories but only collect files
err := filepath.Walk(root, func(path string, f os.FileInfo, err error) error {
if !f.IsDir() {
files = append(files, f)
}
return nil
})
return files, err
}