A Parser for Valves Data Format (known as vdf) written in Go. Comments are not preserved during parsing.

It is go gettable

$ go get github.com/perplex/vdf

The parser will return a KeyValue type that can handle querying for submaps, objects, and values without the need to worry about type assertions.

firstkey
{
	secondkey
	{
		"attr1" "val1"
		"attr2" "val2"
	}
}

In the above example firstkey would be a submap as it is of the type map[string]interface{}, while secondkey can either be a submap or an object. An object is defined as a map[string]string, so it is the final map structure before looping over values. Val1 and val2 are both values as there is no map structure below them. Querying for secondkey as a submap would look like this

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/perplex/vdf"
)

func main() {

	obj, err := vdf.ParseFile("path/to/example.vdf", false)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	
	sm, err := obj.GetSubmap("firstkey", "secondkey")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	
	fmt.Println(sm.GetKeys())
}

This would print attr1 and attr2.

This is based on the original fork of this repo from andygrunwald and simple-vdf.