From a6edcd222e7f3183985f7c5850df3affc02c4b99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daan Sprenkels <hello@dsprenkels.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:16:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add marshalling functions for gob

This removes a lot of the boilerplate code that comes with
(un)marshalling to gob encoding in Go.
---
 gobmarsh/marshal.go | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gobmarsh/marshal.go

diff --git a/gobmarsh/marshal.go b/gobmarsh/marshal.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..baa0154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gobmarsh/marshal.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package gobmarsh
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/gob"
+)
+
+func Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
+	b := new(bytes.Buffer)
+	err := gob.NewEncoder(b).Encode(v)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return b.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func Unmarshal(data []byte, v interface{}) error {
+	b := bytes.NewBuffer(data)
+	return gob.NewDecoder(b).Decode(v)
+}