Go - Convert raw byte string into uuid-CodePudding

I am trying to convert raw byte strings into UUIDs in my program as follows:

Case1:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"

    "github.com/google/uuid"
)

func main() {
    s := `"\220\254\0021\265\235O~\244\326\216\"\227c\245\002"`
    s2, err := strconv.Unquote(s)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    by := []byte(s2)
    u, err := uuid.FromBytes(by)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(u.String())
}

output:

90ac0231-b59d-4f7e-a4d6-8e229763a502

Case2:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"

    "github.com/google/uuid"
)

func main() {
    s := `"\235\273\'\021\003\261@\022\226\275o\265\322\002\211\263"`
    s2, err := strconv.Unquote(s)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    by := []byte(s2)
    u, err := uuid.FromBytes(by)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(u.String())
}

output:

panic: invalid syntax

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
    /tmp/sandbox1756881518/prog.go:14  0x149

Program exited.

The above program is working with string "\220\254\0021\265\235O~\244\326\216\"\227c\245\002" but fails at converting string "\235\273\'\021\003\261@\022\226\275o\265\322\002\211\263" into uuid. How can I convert these strings into UUIDs?

CodePudding user response：

If fails because of \'. When using backticks, all backslashes are literally backslashes and not escape sequences, so you are passing raw backslash \, followed by single quote ' to the strconv.Unquote. It causes invalid syntax. There are two workarounds here:

First

Just replace this line:

s := `"\235\273\'\021\003\261@\022\226\275o\265\322\002\211\263"`

with this:

s := `"\235\273'\021\003\261@\022\226\275o\265\322\002\211\263"`

So there is ' not \'. But if you need to programmatically convert the string, use the second approach.

Second

Import "strings":

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
    "github.com/google/uuid"
)

And replace \' with ':

s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, `\'`, `'`)

So the full code looks like this now:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
    "github.com/google/uuid"
)

func main() {
    s := `"\235\273\'\021\003\261@\022\226\275o\265\322\002\211\263"`
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, `\'`, `'`)
    s2, err := strconv.Unquote(s)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    by := []byte(s2)
    u, err := uuid.FromBytes(by)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(u.String())
}