Rename a few things.

.gitignore

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 *~
 /package_build_*
 /release
+MANUAL
+MANUAL.html
 README
 README.html
 /unifi-poller_manual.html

Makefile

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ MAINT=David Newhall II <david at sleepers dot pro>
 DESC=This daemon polls a UniFi controller at a short interval and stores the collected measurements in an Influx Database.
 GOLANGCI_LINT_ARGS=--enable-all -D gochecknoglobals
 PACKAGE:=./cmd/$(BINARY)
-LIBRARY:=./pkg/$(BINARY)
 DOCKER_REPO=golift
 MD2ROFF_BIN=github.com/github/hub/md2roff-bin
 
@@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ clean:
 man: $(BINARY).1.gz
 $(BINARY).1.gz: md2roff
 	# Building man page. Build dependency first: md2roff
-	go run $(MD2ROFF_BIN) --manual $(BINARY) --version $(VERSION) --date "$$(date)" cmd/$(BINARY)/README.md
+	go run $(MD2ROFF_BIN) --manual $(BINARY) --version $(VERSION) --date "$$(date)" examples/MANUAL.md
-	gzip -9nc cmd/$(BINARY)/README > $(BINARY).1.gz
+	gzip -9nc examples/MANUAL > $(BINARY).1.gz
-	mv cmd/$(BINARY)/README.html $(BINARY)_manual.html
+	mv examples/MANUAL.html $(BINARY)_manual.html
 
 md2roff:
 	go get $(MD2ROFF_BIN)
@@ -63,23 +62,23 @@ README.html: md2roff
 
 build: $(BINARY)
 $(BINARY):
-	go build -o $(BINARY) -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
+	go build -o $(BINARY) -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
 
 linux: $(BINARY).linux
 $(BINARY).linux:
 	# Building linux binary.
-	GOOS=linux go build -o $(BINARY).linux -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
+	GOOS=linux go build -o $(BINARY).linux -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
 
 macos: $(BINARY).macos
 $(BINARY).macos:
 	# Building darwin binary.
-	GOOS=darwin go build -o $(BINARY).macos -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
+	GOOS=darwin go build -o $(BINARY).macos -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
 
 exe: $(BINARY).exe
 windows: $(BINARY).exe
 $(BINARY).exe:
 	# Building windows binary.
-	GOOS=windows go build -o $(BINARY).exe -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
+	GOOS=windows go build -o $(BINARY).exe -ldflags "-w -s -X github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller.Version=$(VERSION)" $(PACKAGE)
 
 # Packages
 
@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ $(BINARY).rb: v$(VERSION).tar.gz.sha256
 # Run code tests and lint.
 test: lint
 	# Testing.
-	go test -race -covermode=atomic $(PACKAGE) $(LIBRARY)
+	go test -race -covermode=atomic ./...
 lint:
 	# Checking lint.
 	golangci-lint run $(GOLANGCI_LINT_ARGS)

README.md

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ means, if you wanted to do something like make telegraf collect your data instea
 of UniFi Poller you can achieve that with a little bit of Go code. You could write
 a small app that acts as a telegraf input plugin using the [unifi](https://github.com/golift/unifi)
 library to grab the data from your controller. As a bonus, all of the code in UniFi Poller is
-[also a library](https://godoc.org/github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller)
+[also a library](https://godoc.org/github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller)
 and can be used in other projects.
 
 # What now...

cmd/unifi-poller/main.go

@@ -1,29 +1,14 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"log"
-	"os"
 
-	unifipoller "github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/pkg/unifi-poller"
+	"github.com/davidnewhall/unifi-poller/unifipoller"
 )
 
+// Keep it simple.
 func main() {
-	log.SetFlags(log.LstdFlags)
+	if err := unifipoller.Start(); err != nil {
-	if err := run(); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalln("[ERROR]", err)
 	}
 }
-
-func run() error {
-	unifi := &unifipoller.UnifiPoller{}
-	if unifi.ParseFlags(os.Args[1:]); unifi.ShowVer {
-		fmt.Printf("unifi-poller v%s\n", unifipoller.Version)
-		return nil // don't run anything else w/ version request.
-	}
-	if err := unifi.GetConfig(); err != nil {
-		unifi.Flag.Usage()
-		return err
-	}
-	return unifi.Run()
-}

unifipoller/unifipoller.go

@@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ import (
 	yaml "gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
+// Start begins the application from a CLI.
+// Parses flags, parses config and executes Run().
+func Start() error {
+	log.SetFlags(log.LstdFlags)
+	up := &UnifiPoller{}
+	if up.ParseFlags(os.Args[1:]); up.ShowVer {
+		fmt.Printf("unifi-poller v%s\n", Version)
+		return nil // don't run anything else w/ version request.
+	}
+	if err := up.GetConfig(); err != nil {
+		up.Flag.Usage()
+		return err
+	}
+	return up.Run()
+}
+
 // ParseFlags runs the parser.
 func (u *UnifiPoller) ParseFlags(args []string) {
 	u.Flag = flag.NewFlagSet("unifi-poller", flag.ExitOnError)
@@ -71,22 +87,19 @@ func (u *UnifiPoller) Run() (err error) {
 		u.LogDebugf("Debug Logging Enabled")
 	}
 	log.Printf("[INFO] UniFi Poller v%v Starting Up! PID: %d", Version, os.Getpid())
-
 	if err = u.GetUnifi(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if err = u.GetInfluxDB(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if u.Lambda {
+	switch {
-		metrics, err := u.CollectMetrics()
+	case u.Lambda:
-		if err != nil {
+		return u.CollectAndReport()
-			return err
+	default:
-		}
-		return u.ReportMetrics(metrics)
-	}
 		return u.PollController()
 	}
+}
 
 // GetInfluxDB returns an InfluxDB interface.
 func (u *UnifiPoller) GetInfluxDB() (err error) {

unifipoller/worker.go

@@ -43,10 +43,7 @@ func (u *UnifiPoller) PollController() error {
 	log.Println("[INFO] Everything checks out! Poller started, interval:", u.Interval.Round(time.Second))
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(u.Interval.Round(time.Second))
 	for range ticker.C {
-		metrics, err := u.CollectMetrics()
+		_ = u.CollectAndReport()
-		if err == nil {
-			u.LogError(u.ReportMetrics(metrics), "reporting metrics")
-		}
 		if u.MaxErrors >= 0 && u.errorCount > u.MaxErrors {
 			return errors.Errorf("reached maximum error count, stopping poller (%d > %d)", u.errorCount, u.MaxErrors)
 		}
@@ -54,6 +51,18 @@ func (u *UnifiPoller) PollController() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// CollectAndReport collects measurements and reports them to influxdb.
+// Can be called once or in a ticker loop.
+func (u *UnifiPoller) CollectAndReport() error {
+	metrics, err := u.CollectMetrics()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = u.ReportMetrics(metrics)
+	u.LogError(err, "reporting metrics")
+	return err
+}
+
 // CollectMetrics grabs all the measurements from a UniFi controller and returns them.
 // This also creates an InfluxDB writer, and returns error if that fails.
 func (u *UnifiPoller) CollectMetrics() (*Metrics, error) {