h2. General Description
p{width:500px}. This is the Go implementation of the "Maxmind":http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location GeoIP API. It is incomplete and work in progress the initial goal is support only two of the database types - the City Lite and Country Lite. The only supported method is loading the full db on startup into memory (memory cache).
h3. Supported Access Methods
- In Memory (Load(string))
h3. Supported Database Formats
- Country Edition (dbType=1)
- City Edition REV 0 (dbType=6)
- City Edition REV 1 (dbType=2)
h3. Supported Lookups
- By IP Address (GetLocationByIP(string))
- By IP Number (GetLocationByIPNum(uint32))
h3. Supported Responses
- CountryCode string (available in all databases)
- CountryName string (available in all databases)
- City string
- Region string
- PostalCode string
- Latitude float32
- Longitude float32
h3. To Do
- Implement better error handling (report the error on load and lookups)
- Better returns, country edition has only code and name (perhaps use interfaces)
- Add test cases and benchmarking
- Add support for more database formats
h3. Build
make (See Makefile for more details)
h3. Example
./example DBFILE IPADDRESS (i.e. ./example GeoIP.dat 1.1.1.1)
h3. Usage
Please see example.go for a complete example of how to use this library.