i am using Gorilla Mux for writing a REST API and i am having trouble organizing my routes, currently all of my routes are defined in the main.go
file like this
//main.go
package main
import (
"NovAPI/routes"
"fmt"
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
router := mux.NewRouter().StrictSlash(true)
router.HandleFunc("/hello", func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Hello")
})
router.HandleFunc("/user", func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "User")
})
router.HandleFunc("/route2", func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Route2")
})
router.HandleFunc("/route3", func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Route3")
})
// route declarations continue like this
http.ListenAndServe(":1128", router)
}
so what i want to do is take out and split this route declaration into multiple files, how would i go about doing that? thanks in advance.
What about something like this ?
//main.go
package main
import (
"NovAPI/routes"
"fmt"
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
router := mux.NewRouter().StrictSlash(true)
router.HandleFunc("/hello", HelloHandler)
router.HandleFunc("/user", UserHandler)
router.HandleFunc("/route2", Route2Handler)
router.HandleFunc("/route3", Route3Handler)
// route declarations continue like this
http.ListenAndServe(":1128", router)
}
func HelloHandler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Hello")
}
func UserHandler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "User")
}
func Route2Handler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Route2")
}
func Route3Handler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Route3")
}
That way you can put your handlers in other files, or even other packages.
If you endup with additionnal dependencies like a database, you can even avoid the need of the global var using a constructor trick:
//main.go
func main() {
db := sql.Open(…)
//...
router.HandleFunc("/hello", NewHelloHandler(db))
//...
}
func NewHelloHandler(db *sql.DB) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
return func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
// db is in the local scope, and you can even inject it to test your
// handler
fmt.Fprintln(res, "Hello")
}
}