A comprehensive Go utility library providing collection manipulation, struct scanning, time utilities, and service routing.
Toolbox is a Go utility library that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for common programming tasks, including collection manipulation, struct reflection, time parsing, and REST service routing. It solves the problem of repetitive boilerplate code by offering reusable abstractions for data processing, serialization, and web service development.
Go developers building applications that require efficient data structure manipulation, dynamic struct inspection, or lightweight REST API routing without heavy frameworks.
Developers choose Toolbox for its extensive, well-integrated utilities that reduce code duplication, its reflection-based struct utilities for dynamic programming, and its simple yet powerful service routing for building REST endpoints.
Toolbox - go utility library
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Provides functions like ProcessSlice and TransformSlice that work on any slice or map type, eliminating boilerplate for common data manipulations as shown in the README examples.
Includes TimeAt and TimeDiff utilities to parse expressions like 'tomorrow' or '50 hours ago', simplifying time-based logic without manual calculations.
ServiceRouter allows defining RESTful endpoints with automatic parameter extraction from URIs, query strings, or JSON bodies, enabling rapid API development as demonstrated with the ReverseService example.
Converter can transform data between structs, maps, slices, and basic types with support for custom tags, reducing manual marshaling and unmarshaling code.
The storage API is explicitly deprecated in the README, advising use of an external library (Abstract Storage), indicating limited maintenance and potential future removal.
Utilities like ScanStructMethods and ProcessStruct rely on reflection, which can introduce performance penalties and reduce type safety in performance-critical applications.
As a comprehensive library, importing Toolbox adds multiple functionalities even if only a few are needed, potentially increasing binary size and complicating dependency management for lean projects.