Golang : Variadic function arguments sanity check example
Problem:
Golang is cool and you love to use variadic function frequently. You have a variadic function such as a totalizer functions that accept any number of arguments. Such as
func variadicFunction(arguments ...int) {}
Somehow a user of your program or variadic function managed to sneak in a null/nil or empty argument. This caused your variadic function to go crazy.
How to prevent this from happening?
Solution:
You want to perform sanity check on your users and their input arguments first before processing further. For example :
package main
import "fmt"
func totalizer(values ...int) {
if values == nil {
fmt.Println("boom! - no number in arguments")
//panic("kaboom") -- if you choose to kill the program
} else {
fmt.Print(values, " ")
total := 0
for _, value := range values {
total += value
}
fmt.Println(total)
}
}
func main() {
totalizer(2)
totalizer(1, 2, 3)
totalizer()
}
Output:
[2] 2
[1 2 3] 6
boom! - no values given in arguments
Happy coding and don't let your user bomb your program!
By Adam Ng
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