The goal of this package is to quickly surface consistent and supportable JSON web services for small bits of business logic.

It is useful for two key scenarios:

1. Wrapping small pieces of business logic in a web service
2. Achieving consistency in the response structure

Features:

• Parsing of JSON inputs
• Rendering of JSON
• Errors rendered as JSON
• Pagination struct for consistent pagination by API consumers
• Automatic HTTP OPTIONS
• Automatic HTTP HEAD
• glog style logging interface
• Sentry support if os.Getenv("SENTRY_DSN") is set
• Middleware capability (via Negroni)
• /debug/profile/info.html for web based profiling
• /debug/pprof for pprof profiling
• /heartbeat basic version info
• /stats via Negroni middleware
• /version endpoint that services can override with their own (i.e. to provide DB migration version information in addition to process version information)

go get github.com/cloudflare/service

Create a new project, and in your main.go:

package main

import (
	"flag"

	"github.com/cloudflare/service"
)

func main() {
	// service/log requires that we call flag.Parse()
	flag.Parse()

	// Creates a new webservice, this holds all of the controllers
	ws := service.NewWebService()

	// Add a controller to the web service, a controller handles one path
	ws.AddWebController(HelloController())

	// Run the web service
	ws.Run(":8080")
}

In example.go:

package main

import (
	"net/http"

	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
	"github.com/cloudflare/service"
	"github.com/cloudflare/service/render"
)

// HelloController handles the /hello/{name} route
func HelloController() service.WebController {
	wc := service.NewWebController("/hello/{name}")

	// Add a handler for GET
	wc.AddMethodHandler(service.Get, HelloControllerGet)

	return wc
}

// HelloControllerGet handles GET for /hello/{name}
func HelloControllerGet(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	// Get the path var for this controller
	name := mux.Vars(req)["name"]

	type HelloWorld struct {
		Hello string `json:"hello"`
	}

	hello := HelloWorld{Hello: name}

	render.JSON(w, http.StatusOK, hello)
}

Build and run the service, access via http://localhost:8080/hello/world.

Access http://localhost:8080/ for a list of the endpoints available and their methods, call http://localhost:8080/hello/world to see the above endpoint working.

To enable /heartbeat to echo the git hash of the current build and the timestamp of the current build you will need to use a Makefile to build your executable. You will need to adjust your main.go to support this:

Your main.go:

package main

import "github.com/cloudflare/service"

var buildTag = "dev"
var buildDate = "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"

func main() {
	service.BuildTag = buildTag
	service.BuildDate = buildDate
}

Your Makefile:

.PHONY: all build install

all: install

BUILD_TAG = $(shell git log --pretty=format:'%h' -n 1)
BUILD_DATE = $(shell date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)

build:
	@go build -ldflags "-X main.buildTag=$(BUILD_TAG) -X main.buildDate=$(BUILD_DATE)"
	@echo "build complete"

install:
	@go install -ldflags "-X main.buildTag=$(BUILD_TAG) -X main.buildDate=$(BUILD_DATE)"

Using Make to build using make build or to install using make install. Those will build and install in the same way that go build or go install will, but simply wrap the go command to ensure that the build information is added.