NewObject func

Author: pjdufour

gss/Convert.go

@@ -7,36 +7,14 @@
 
 package gss
 
-import (
-	"strings"
-)
-
 import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
 // Convert converts an input_string from the input_format to the output_format and returns an error, if any.
 func Convert(input_string string, input_format string, input_header []string, input_comment string, output_format string) (string, error) {
 
-	var object interface{}
-
-	if input_format == "json" {
-		input_string = strings.TrimSpace(input_string)
-		if len(input_string) > 0 && input_string[0] == '[' {
-			object = []map[string]interface{}{}
-		} else {
-			object = map[string]interface{}{}
-		}
-	} else if input_format == "yaml" {
-		input_string = strings.TrimSpace(input_string)
-		if len(input_string) > 0 && input_string[0] == '-' {
-			object = []map[string]interface{}{}
-		} else {
-			object = map[string]interface{}{}
-		}
-	} else if input_format == "bson" || input_format == "hcl" || input_format == "hcl2" || input_format == "properties" || input_format == "toml" {
-		object = map[string]interface{}{}
-	}
+	object := NewObject(input_string, input_format)
 
 	if input_format == "bson" || input_format == "json" || input_format == "hcl" || input_format == "hcl2" || input_format == "properties" || input_format == "toml" || input_format == "yaml" {
 		if output_format == "bson" || output_format == "json" || input_format == "hcl" || input_format == "hcl2" || output_format == "properties" || output_format == "toml" || output_format == "yaml" {

gss/NewObject.go

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package gss
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+)
+
+func NewObject(content string, format string) interface{} {
+	if format == "json" {
+		content = strings.TrimLeftFunc(content, unicode.IsSpace)
+		if len(content) > 0 && content[0] == '[' {
+			return []map[string]interface{}{}
+		}
+		return map[string]interface{}{}
+	} else if format == "yaml" {
+		content = strings.TrimLeftFunc(content, unicode.IsSpace)
+		if len(content) > 0 && content[0] == '-' {
+			return []map[string]interface{}{}
+		}
+		return map[string]interface{}{}
+	} else if format == "bson" || format == "hcl" || format == "hcl2" || format == "properties" || format == "toml" {
+		return map[string]interface{}{}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}