So after a while while programming with Go, I discovered that
golang's net/http is very nicely designed for writing web apps
but I wanted to add helpers on top of it to cover my API use cases.
The godoc is more
useful than here but here is a quick example.
This is meant to not limit you in any way from what choosing your own router. I tend to lean towards HTTPRouter but choose your own flavor.
package main
import (
"log"
"net/http"
"github.com/apriendeau/shttp"
)
func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
body := make(map[string]string)
if err := shttp.Read(r, &body); err != nil {
if err := shttp.Error(w, r, err, 422); err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
}
message := struct {
Message string `json:"message"`
Received map[string]string `json:"received"`
}{"I received your information.", body}
if err := shttp.Write(w, r, message, 200); err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
}
func main() {
mux := http.NewServeMux()
mux.HandleFunc("/post", handler)
if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8000", mux); err != nil {
log.Panic(err)
}
}