gopkg.in/sorcix/irc.v2

Go irc package

Features

Package irc allows your application to speak the IRC protocol.

• Limited scope, does one thing and does it well.
• Focus on simplicity and speed.
• Stable API: updates shouldn't break existing software.
• Well documented code.

This package does not manage your entire IRC connection. It only translates the protocol to easy to use Go types. It is meant as a single component in a larger IRC library, or for basic IRC bots for which a large IRC package would be overkill.

Usage

import "gopkg.in/sorcix/irc.v2"

Message

The Message and Prefix types provide translation to and from IRC message format.

// Parse the IRC-encoded data and stores the result in a new struct.
message := irc.ParseMessage(raw)

// Returns the IRC encoding of the message.
raw = message.String()

Encoder & Decoder

The Encoder and Decoder types allow working with IRC message streams.

// Create a decoder that reads from given io.Reader
dec := irc.NewDecoder(reader)

// Decode the next IRC message
message, err := dec.Decode()

// Create an encoder that writes to given io.Writer
enc := irc.NewEncoder(writer)

// Send a message to the writer.
enc.Encode(message)

Conn

The Conn type combines an Encoder and Decoder for a duplex connection.

c, err := irc.Dial("irc.server.net:6667")

// Methods from both Encoder and Decoder are available
message, err := c.Decode()