In Go language,
io packages supply fundamental interfaces to the I/O primitives. And its principal job is to enclose the ongoing implementations of such king of primitives. The
ReadFull() function in Go language is used to read from the stated reader "r" into the stated buffer "buf" and the bytes copied is exactly equal to the length of the buffer specified. Moreover, this function is defined under the io package. Here, you need to import the "io" package in order to use these functions.
Syntax:
func ReadFull(r Reader, buf []byte) (n int, err error)
Here, "r" is the reader stated, "buf" is the buffer stated of the specified length.
Return value: It returns the number of bytes that the stated buffer copies and also returns an error if the number of bytes reads are less than the length of the buffer specified. Here, "n" returned will be equal to the length of the buffer specified if and only if the error is nil. However, the error returned is "EOF" if and only if no bytes are read.
Note: If an EOF takes place after reading fewer bytes but not all the bytes then this method returns an
ErrUnexpectedEOF error. However, if the stated reader returns an error after reading at least length of the buffer then the error is declined.
Example 1:
Output:
Number of bytes in the buffer: 4
Content in buffer: Geek
Here, the 'n' returned i.e, 4 is equal to the length of 'buf' as the error is nil.
Example 2:
Output:
panic: unexpected EOF
goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
/tmp/sandbox503804944/prog.go:29 +0x210
Here, the buffer stated in above code has length greater than the bytes read from the reader so an EOF error is thrown.
