go-restful

package for building REST-style Web Services using Google Go

Code examples

REST asks developers to use HTTP methods explicitly and in a way that's consistent with the protocol definition. This basic REST design principle establishes a one-to-one mapping between create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations and HTTP methods. According to this mapping:

GET = Retrieve a representation of a resource
POST = Create if you are sending content to the server to create a subordinate of the specified resource collection, using some server-side algorithm.
PUT = Create if you are sending the full content of the specified resource (URI).
PUT = Update if you are updating the full content of the specified resource.
DELETE = Delete if you are requesting the server to delete the resource
PATCH = Update partial content of a resource
OPTIONS = Get information about the communication options for the request URI

Example

ws := new(restful.WebService)
ws.
	Path("/users").
	Consumes(restful.MIME_XML, restful.MIME_JSON).
	Produces(restful.MIME_JSON, restful.MIME_XML)

ws.Route(ws.GET("/{user-id}").To(u.findUser).
	Doc("get a user").
	Param(ws.PathParameter("user-id", "identifier of the user").DataType("string")).
	Writes(User{}))		
...
	
func (u UserResource) findUser(request *restful.Request, response *restful.Response) {
	id := request.PathParameter("user-id")
	...
}

Full API of a UserResource

Features

Routes for request → function mapping with path parameter (e.g. {id}) support
Configurable router:
- (default) Fast routing algorithm that allows static elements, regular expressions and dynamic parameters in the URL path (e.g. /meetings/{id} or /static/{subpath:*}
- Routing algorithm after JSR311 that is implemented using (but does not accept) regular expressions
Request API for reading structs from JSON/XML and accesing parameters (path,query,header)
Response API for writing structs to JSON/XML and setting headers
Customizable encoding using EntityReaderWriter registration
Filters for intercepting the request → response flow on Service or Route level
Request-scoped variables using attributes
Containers for WebServices on different HTTP endpoints
Content encoding (gzip,deflate) of request and response payloads
Automatic responses on OPTIONS (using a filter)
Automatic CORS request handling (using a filter)
API declaration for Swagger UI (go-restful-openapi, see go-restful-swagger12)
Panic recovery to produce HTTP 500, customizable using RecoverHandler(...)
Route errors produce HTTP 404/405/406/415 errors, customizable using ServiceErrorHandler(...)
Configurable (trace) logging
Customizable gzip/deflate readers and writers using CompressorProvider registration

How to customize

There are several hooks to customize the behavior of the go-restful package.

Router algorithm
Panic recovery
JSON decoder
Trace logging
Compression
Encoders for other serializers
Use jsoniter by build this package using a tag, e.g. go build -tags=jsoniter .

TODO: write examples of these.

Resources

Type git shortlog -s for a full list of contributors.