Example djherbis/stow usage.

Stow Example.go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "log"

  "github.com/boltdb/bolt"
  "github.com/djherbis/stow"
)

type Name struct {
  First string
  Last string
}

func main(){
  // Open Database
  db, err := bolt.Open("my.db", 0600, nil)
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
  }
  defer db.Close()

  // Create a Store
  // you will need to do gob.Register(Name{}) if you wish to use NewStore
  store := stow.NewJSONStore(db, []byte("bucket"))

  // Put a few names in the Store
  store.Put([]byte("friend1"), &Name{"Friend A", "A Friend"})
  store.Put([]byte("friend2"), &Name{"Friend B", "B Friend"})

  // Get the names back
  var friend1, friend2 Name
  if store.Get([]byte("friend1"), &friend1) != stow.ErrNotFound {
    fmt.Println(friend1)
  }
  if store.Get([]byte("friend2"), &friend2) != stow.ErrNotFound {
    fmt.Println(friend2)
  }
}

Hmm. This example doesn't work if you instead use stow.NewStore (for gob en/decoding) unless you first register Name with gob. See this gist.

Thanks! That's actually a requirement of the Gob encoding, but you are correct so I'm adding a comment to clarify.