What's the best way to convert from []uint8 to string?
I'm using http://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/kafka
To read events from kafka. But it does not return plain string event. It returns event with type []uint8. How can I convert this event from []uint8 to string?
byte is an alias for uint8, which means that a slice of uint8) (aka []uint8) is also a slice of byte (aka []byte).
And byte slices and strings are directly convertible, due to the fact that strings are backed by byte slices:
myByteSlice := []byte{ ... } // same as myByteSlice := []uint8{ ... } myString := string(myByteSlice) // myString is a string representation of the byte slice myOtherSlice := []byte(myString) // Converted back to byte slice
string(uint8slice). See How to convert []int8 to string.