dabcoder / countries-cli

CLI using the restcountries.eu API

countries-cli

How to use the CLI:

countries -h will display the help menu

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --population, -p  Display the country's population only
   --language, -l    Display the country's language only
   --help, -h        show help
   --version, -v     print the version

countries <country> displays information about

• Capital
• (Sub)region
• Population
• Currency
• Language

countries-cli's Issues

First code review and some feedback

After walking through the current master code, you will find my feedback below as TODO entries:

• it will be better to declarebaseURL const outside main() function, usually after the imports

• You could use fmt.Sprintf() function to avoid string concatenation using + or even strings.Builder introduced in Go 1.10 version.

• Need to close the body after http.Response creation
  After opening the connection using http.Get(), you forgot to close the resp.Body after the line 42, you can do it with the following statement: Read more on defer

defer resp.Body.Close()