完成处理包后，强制调用Close（）

Question

I'm writing a package in go that creates a connection to Kafka.

I create the connection in the init() function in the main file in the package. After the program that uses the package stops, I want to call a function called Close()

Is there a way to enforce it in the package level, instead of giving this responsibility to the user?

Assume that the connection should be available throughout the run of the user's program, I don't want to initialize it every time.

Answer 1

As for just about any resource (and a connection is no different), a user should call the functions to return resources to the system after use. Most users understand this across languages and architectures, so I don't see why your package users should have any concern. Go addresses this problem very elegantly by including the defer statement which makes it very easy to provide for releasing a resource.