adds std encoding API fixes #4

The std encoding format is Unmarshal([]byte, interface{}) error.
This naturally lends itself well to being passed readfile or exhausted
reader/buffer.

decoder.go

@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ var (
 	nodeType reflect.Type = findNodeType()
 )
 
+// Unmarshal accepts a byte slice as input and writes the
+// data to the value pointed to by v.
+func Unmarshal(bs []byte, v interface{}) error {
+	root, err := parse(bs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return DecodeObject(v, root)
+}
+
 // Decode reads the given input and decodes it into the structure
 // given by `out`.
 func Decode(out interface{}, in string) error {

decoder_test.go

@@ -291,6 +291,16 @@ func TestDecode_interface(t *testing.T) {
 		if !reflect.DeepEqual(out, tc.Out) {
 			t.Fatalf("Input: %s. Actual, Expected.\n\n%#v\n\n%#v", tc.File, out, tc.Out)
 		}
+
+		var v interface{}
+		err = Unmarshal(d, &v)
+		if (err != nil) != tc.Err {
+			t.Fatalf("Input: %s\n\nError: %s", tc.File, err)
+		}
+
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(v, tc.Out) {
+			t.Fatalf("Input: %s. Actual, Expected.\n\n%#v\n\n%#v", tc.File, out, tc.Out)
+		}
 	}
 }
 

lex.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package hcl
 
 import (
 	"unicode"
+	"unicode/utf8"
 )
 
 type lexModeValue byte
@@ -14,17 +15,23 @@ const (
 
 // lexMode returns whether we're going to be parsing in JSON
 // mode or HCL mode.
-func lexMode(v string) lexModeValue {
+func lexMode(v []byte) lexModeValue {
-	for _, r := range v {
+	var (
+		r      rune
+		w      int
+		offset int
+	)
+
+	for {
+		r, w = utf8.DecodeRune(v[offset:])
+		offset += w
 		if unicode.IsSpace(r) {
 			continue
 		}
-
 		if r == '{' {
 			return lexModeJson
-		} else {
-			return lexModeHcl
 		}
+		break
 	}
 
 	return lexModeHcl

lex_test.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ func TestLexMode(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	for i, tc := range cases {
-		actual := lexMode(tc.Input)
+		actual := lexMode([]byte(tc.Input))
 
 		if actual != tc.Mode {
 			t.Fatalf("%d: %#v", i, actual)

parse.go

@@ -8,16 +8,32 @@ import (
 	jsonParser "github.com/hashicorp/hcl/json/parser"
 )
 
-// Parse parses the given input and returns the root object.
+// ParseBytes accepts as input byte slice and returns ast tree.
 //
-// The input format can be either HCL or JSON.
+// Input can be either JSON or HCL
-func Parse(input string) (*ast.File, error) {
+func ParseBytes(in []byte) (*ast.File, error) {
-	switch lexMode(input) {
+	return parse(in)
+}
+
+// ParseString accepts input as a string and returns ast tree.
+func ParseString(input string) (*ast.File, error) {
+	return parse([]byte(input))
+}
+
+func parse(in []byte) (*ast.File, error) {
+	switch lexMode(in) {
 	case lexModeHcl:
-		return hclParser.Parse([]byte(input))
+		return hclParser.Parse(in)
 	case lexModeJson:
-		return jsonParser.Parse([]byte(input))
+		return jsonParser.Parse(in)
 	}
 
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown config format")
 }
+
+// Parse parses the given input and returns the root object.
+//
+// The input format can be either HCL or JSON.
+func Parse(input string) (*ast.File, error) {
+	return parse([]byte(input))
+}