The viper package

Flags are specially formatted strings that are passed into a program to control its behavior. Dealing with flags on your own might become very frustrating if you want to support multiple flags and options. Go offers the flag package for working with command-line options, parameters, and flags. Although flag can do many things, it is not as capable as other external Go packages. Thus, if you are developing simple UNIX system command-line utilities, you might find the flag package very interesting and useful. But you are not reading this book to create simple command-line utilities! Therefore, I'll skip the flag package and introduce you to an external package named viper, which is a powerful Go package that supports a plethora of options. viper uses the pflag package instead of flag, which is also illustrated in the code we will look at in the following sections.

All viper projects follow a pattern. First, you initialize viper and then you define the elements...