started cleaning the code up!

main.go

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ type Main struct {
 type Wind struct {
 	Speed float64 `json:"speed"`
 	Deg   float64 `json:"deg"`
-	gust  float64 `json:"gust"`
+	Gust  float64 `json:"gust"`
 }
 
 type Rain struct {
@@ -72,15 +72,13 @@ type Sys struct {
 
 func main() {
 	//set up the flags for the program to use!
-	var city, code string
+	var city, code, api_key string
-	flag.StringVar(&city, "city", "London", "Enter city e.g. London, Glasgow etc...")
+	flag.StringVar(&city, "city", "London", "Enter city e.g. London, Glasgow etc... (Default: London)")
-	flag.StringVar(&code, "code", "uk", "Enter Code e.g. uk, us etc...")
+	flag.StringVar(&code, "code", "uk", "Enter Code e.g. uk, us etc... (Default: uk)")
-
+	flag.StringVar(&code, "api", "none", "Enter Code e.g. uk, us etc... Default(none)")
 	flag.Parse()
-	//setting up openweathermap api
+
-	api_key := "29e5139b86638988d333a28ba360bfd9"
 	full := "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=" + city + "," + code + "&units=metric" + "&appid=" + api_key + ""
-	fmt.Printf("\n------\nWeather url: %+s\n---------\n", full)
 
 	//read webpage
 	url := full
@@ -90,16 +88,13 @@ func main() {
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
-	//print the html
+	//Create file
-	fmt.Printf("%s\n", html)
+	CreateFile(string(html), false)
-	fmt.Println("---------- JSON PARSED -----------\n\n")
-
-	//output the html to stirling.json
-	CreateFile(string(html))
 
 	data, _ := LoadConfiguration("weather.json")
 	fmt.Println(data)
 }
+
 func LoadConfiguration(file string) (WeatherAPI, error) {
 	var config WeatherAPI
 	configFile, err := os.Open(file)
@@ -110,39 +105,25 @@ func LoadConfiguration(file string) (WeatherAPI, error) {
 	jsonParser.Decode(&config)
 	return config, err
 }
-func CreateFile(fileContents string) {
 
-	// fmt package implements formatted
+func CreateFile(fileContents string, debugFlag bool) {
-	// I/O and has functions like Printf
-	// and Scanf
-	fmt.Printf("Writing to a file in Go lang\n")
 
-	// in case an error is thrown it is received
+	fmt.Printf("Writing to a file in Go lang\n")
-	// by the err variable and Fatalf method of
-	// log prints the error message and stops
-	// program execution
 	file, err := os.Create("weather.json")
-
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("failed creating file: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	// Defer is used for purposes of cleanup like
-	// closing a running file after the file has
-	// been written and main //function has
-	// completed execution
 	defer file.Close()
 
-	// len variable captures the length
-	// of the string written to the file.
 	len, err := file.WriteString(fileContents)
-
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("failed writing to file: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	// Name() method returns the name of the
+	// Debug Flag
-	// file as presented to Create() method.
+	if debugFlag {
-	fmt.Printf("\nFile Name: %s", file.Name())
+		fmt.Printf("\nFile Name: %s", file.Name())
-	fmt.Printf("\nLength: %d bytes", len)
+		fmt.Printf("\nLength: %d bytes", len)
+	}
 }