The Stretchr Go SDK allows you to interact with Stretchr services in your Go code. You should become familiar with how Stretchr works first by visiting the Stretchr website.

This guide covers the primary functions of Stretchr, and how you execute such activities using the Go SDK.

To interact with Stretchr, you need a Session object. A session object holds details about the Stretchr project you are interacting with, and the authentication that gives you access to do so.

Stretchr := stretchr.NewSession("{project}", "{public-key}", "{private-key}")

• {project} - The fully qualified name of the Stretchr project you wish to interact with.
• {public-key} - The public key of an account with permission to access the project.
• {private-key} - The private key of the same account.

For example:

Stretchr := stretchr.NewSession("test.project.company", "ABCDEFGHJIKLMNOPQRSTU", "VWXYZABCDEFGHJIKLM")

It is good practice to name your variable Stretchr (as in the example above) because it makes the rest of your code very easy to read. Be careful to remember the difference between uppercase Stretchr, the session variable, and lowercase stretchr, the package. The Stretchr variable in the following code samples refers to a stretchr.Session object.

To persist something in Stretchr, you just need to create a resource and call the Create method. In this example, we are going to persist a person resource at /people:

// make a resource and set some data
resource := stretchr.MakeResourceAt("people").
                     Set("name", "Mat").
                     Set("age", 30)

// create the resource
changes, err := Stretchr.At(resource.ResourcePath()).Create(resource)

if err != nil {
  // TODO: handle errors
}

if changes.Created() == 1 {
  
  // log the ID that Stretchr generated for us
  log.Printf("Person was created and given ID: %s", resource.ID())

}

Once you have data in Stretchr, it would be nice to get it back. Luckily, we thought of this.

If you know the path and ID of a resource you wish to read, you can do so using the ReadOne method as in the following example where we read the people resource with ID 123:

resource, err := Stretchr.At("people/123").ReadOne()

if err != nil {
  // TODO: handle errors
}

log.Printf("Just loaded %s who is %g years old.", resource.Get("name"), resource.Get("age"))

If you want to load a collection of resources in one go, you can do so using the ReadMany function:

collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").ReadMany()

if err != nil {
  // TODO: handle errors
}

// iterate over each person
for _, resource := range collection.Resources {
  log.Printf("Did you know %s was %g years old?", resource.Get("name"), resource.Get("age"))
}

Stretchr allows you to modify the resources that are returned by further filtering and ordering your request before you call ReadMany. The following examples demonstrate how this works:

// find people whose age is greater than 18
collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").Where("age", ">18").ReadMany()

// find the three oldest people
collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").Order("-age").Limit(3).ReadMany()

// find the next three oldest people (paging)
collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").Order("-age").Page(2, 3).ReadMany()

// find people called John
collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").Where("name", "John").ReadMany()

// find people NOT called John
collection, err := Stretchr.At("people").Where("name", "!John").ReadMany()

To update the data in of existing resource, you can use the Update function. Updating will change any fields present, and leave alone fields not mentioned in the resource. If you do want to replace the resource wholesale, see Replace.

This example updates the name of person 123:

resource := stretchr.MakeResourceAt("people/123").
                     Set("name", "Mathew")

changes, err := Stretchr.At(resource.ResourcePath()).Update(resource)

if err != nil {
  // TODO: handle errors
}

if changes.Updated() == 1 {

  log.Printf("I just updated person 123's name to: %s", resource.Get("name"))
  
}

Since Update modifies a resource with the specified data, it can sometimes leave unwanted data in the resource. The Go SDK provides a handy Replace function that is similar to deleting a resource and recreating it (with the same ID).

Assuming we have an existing resource with lots of data at people/123, the following code will leave the same resource with only a name field:

resource := stretchr.MakeResourceAt("people/123").
                     Set("name", "Mathew")

changes, err := Stretchr.At(resource.ResourcePath()).Replace(resource)

if err != nil {
  // TODO: handle errors
}

if changes.Updated() == 1 {

  log.Printf("I just replaced person %s entirely", resource.ID())
  
}

Once you have finished with a resource and wish to delete it forever, you can use the Delete function. To delete person 123, we just need to do:

changes, err := Stretchr.At("people/123").Delete()

if err != nil {
  // handle errors
}

log.Printf("%d resource(s) were deleted.", changes.Deleted())

Deleting many resources uses the same function as when you are deleting a single resource, except that you provide a different path:

changes, err := Stretchr.At("people").Delete()

if err != nil {
  // handle errors
}

log.Print("ALL people were deleted")

The same filtering, limiting and skipping methods that work when using ReadMany also work when deleting resources. For example, to delete all people called John you could do:

changes, err := Stretchr.At("people").Where("name", "John").Delete()

The Stretchr Go SDK is built on top of a lower level api package that deals with requests and responses rather than Resources. If you wish to perform advanced actions, or be in more control over how your code interacts with the Stretchr services you are free to use the advanced api package instead.

Much of the interactions are the same as using the higher level SDK, but you tend to have more control over the specifics, including access to the underlying http.Request object that ends up talking to the services.

For more information, check out the api documentation.