govote/store/db.go

package store

import (
	"database/sql"
	_ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
)

// file points the the sqlite file.
const file = "./govote.db"

// db references the initialized sqlite connection.
var db *sql.DB

// init initialized the database layer
func init() {
	var err error
	if db, err = sql.Open("sqlite3", file); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// initialize the sql schema
	initCreateTables(db)

	// initialize all prepared statements
	initStmts(db)
}