Efficiently Processing GPX Files in Go

Use gpxreader to process a GPX file of any size without reading the whole thing into memory. This also avoids Go’s issue where the decoder can decode one node at a time, but, when you do that, it implicitly ignores all child nodes (because it automatically seeks to the matching close tag for validation without any ability to disable this behavior).

An excerpt of the test-script from the project:

//...

func (gv *gpxVisitor) GpxOpen(gpx *gpxreader.Gpx) error {
    fmt.Printf("GPX: %s\n", gpx)

    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) GpxClose(gpx *gpxreader.Gpx) error {
    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackOpen(track *gpxreader.Track) error {
    fmt.Printf("Track: %s\n", track)

    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackClose(track *gpxreader.Track) error {
    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackSegmentOpen(trackSegment *gpxreader.TrackSegment) error {
    fmt.Printf("Track segment: %s\n", trackSegment)

    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackSegmentClose(trackSegment *gpxreader.TrackSegment) error {
    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackPointOpen(trackPoint *gpxreader.TrackPoint) error {
    return nil
}

func (gv *gpxVisitor) TrackPointClose(trackPoint *gpxreader.TrackPoint) error {
    fmt.Printf("Point: %s\n", trackPoint)

    return nil
}

//...

func main() {
    var gpxFilepath string

    o := readOptions()

    gpxFilepath = o.GpxFilepath

    f, err := os.Open(gpxFilepath)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    defer f.Close()

    gv := newGpxVisitor()
    gp := gpxreader.NewGpxParser(f, gv)

    err = gp.Parse()
    if err != nil {
        print("Error: %s\n", err.Error())
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

Output:

$ gpxreadertest -f 20140909.gpx
GPX: GPX
Track: Track
Track segment: TrackSegment
Point: TrackPoint
Point: TrackPoint
Point: TrackPoint
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