dumping all of the database and utilites into the project, will work on the managers next

common/engine/compressor_test.go

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+package engine
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+var testStruct = SomeStruct{
+	A: "alex walker",
+	B: 24,
+	C: 1.234,
+}
+
+func TestMain(t *testing.T) {
+	//use assert library to check for similarity or require library to check something exists
+	t.Run("check that we can 'gob' the data correctly", func(t *testing.T) {
+		if structBytes, err := StructToBytes(testStruct); err != nil {
+			t.Error("failed to create the bytes from the struct provided ", err)
+			t.FailNow()
+		} else if binaryToGobBuffer, err := BytesToGob(structBytes.Bytes()); err != nil {
+			t.Error("failed to create the gob from the bytes provided ", err)
+			t.FailNow()
+			//issue here with gob reading from an interface
+		} else if compressedData, err := CompressBinary(&binaryToGobBuffer); err != nil {
+			t.Error("failed to create the gob from the struct provided ", err)
+			t.FailNow()
+		} else if decompressionReader, err := DecompressBinary(compressedData); err != nil {
+			t.Error("failed to decompress the binary data ", err)
+			t.FailNow()
+		} else if res, err := GobToBytes(decompressionReader); err != nil {
+			t.Error("failed to convert bytes to struct ", err)
+			t.FailNow()
+		} else {
+			fmt.Printf("result %+v\r\n", res)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func openFile(path string) ([]byte, error) {
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println("File reading error", err)
+	}
+	return data, err
+}
+
+func writeFile(path string, data []byte) error {
+	err := ioutil.WriteFile(path, data, 0644)
+	return err
+}