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Config

Gator is a multi-user CLI application. There's no server (other than the database), so it's only intended for local use, but just like games in the 90's and early 2000's, that doesn't mean we can't have multiplayer functionality on a single device!

We'll use a single JSON file to keep track of two things:

Who is currently logged in
The connection credentials for the PostgreSQL database

The JSON file should have this structure (when prettified):

{
  "db_url": "connection_string_goes_here",
  "current_user_name": "username_goes_here"
}

Note: There's no user-based authentication for this app. If someone has the database credentials, they can act as any user. We'll cover auth in other courses. We want to focus on SQL, CLIs and long-running services for this project.

Throughout this project, we'll suggest file names and locations to keep your code organized. If you're unsure, follow our structure. You can organize files differently, but keep the Go packages and paths used by the tools and CLI tests.

Assignment

Manually create a config file in your home directory, ~/.gatorconfig.json, with the following content:
```
{
  "db_url": "postgres://example"
}
```
Don't worry about adding current_user_name, that will be set by the application.
In a new project directory, initialize a new Go module using go mod init. Create a new file, main.go. Add a main function. It doesn't need to do anything yet.
Create internal/config/config.go with a package config declaration. This package will be responsible for reading and writing the JSON file.
This package should have the following functionality exported so the main package can use it:
- Export a Config struct that represents the JSON file structure, including struct tags.
- Export a Read function that reads the JSON file found at ~/.gatorconfig.json and returns a Config struct. It should read the file from the HOME directory, then decode the JSON string into a new Config struct. I used os.UserHomeDir to get the location of HOME.
- Export a SetUser method on the Config struct that writes the config struct to the JSON file after setting the current_user_name field.
I also wrote a few non-exported helper functions and added a constant to hold the filename.
- getConfigFilePath() (string, error)
- write(cfg Config) error
- const configFileName = ".gatorconfig.json"
But you can implement the internals of the package however you like.
Update the main function to:
- Read the config file.
- Set the current user to "lane" (actually, you should use your name instead) and update the config file on disk.
- Read the config file again and print the contents of the config struct to the terminal.

Run and submit the CLI tests from the root of your project.