Go and Gin: Passing around struct for database context?

I've just started trying out Go, and I'm looking to re-implement an API server written in node with it.

I've hit a hurdle with trying to use dependency injection to pass around a database context as a gin middleware. So far I've set it up as this:

main.go:

package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "runtime"
        "log"
        "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
        "votesforschools.com/api/public"
        "votesforschools.com/api/models"
)

type DB struct {
        models.DataStore
}

func main() {
        ConfigRuntime()
        ConfigServer()
}

func Database(connectionString string) gin.HandlerFunc {
        dbInstance, err := models.NewDB(connectionString)
        if err != nil {
                log.Panic(err)
        }

        db := &DB{dbInstance}

        return func(c *gin.Context) {
                c.Set("DB", db)
                c.Next()
        }
}


func ConfigRuntime() {
        nuCPU := runtime.NumCPU()
        runtime.GOMAXPROCS(nuCPU)
        fmt.Printf("Running with %d CPUs\n", nuCPU)
}

func ConfigServer() {

        gin.SetMode(gin.ReleaseMode)

        router := gin.New()
        router.Use(Database("<connectionstring>"))
        router.GET("/public/current-vote-pack", public.GetCurrentVotePack)
        router.Run(":1000")
}

models/db.go

package models

import (
        "database/sql"
        _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

type DataStore interface {
        GetVotePack(id string) (*VotePack, error)
}

type DB struct {
        *sql.DB
}

func NewDB(dataSource string) (*DB, error) {
        db, err := sql.Open("mysql", dataSource)
        if err != nil {
                return nil, err
        }
        if err = db.Ping(); err != nil {
                return nil, err
        }
        return &DB{db}, nil
}

models/votepack.go

package models

import (
        "time"
        "database/sql"
)

type VotePack struct {
        id string
        question string
        description string
        startDate time.Time
        endDate time.Time
        thankYou string
        curriculum []string
}

func (db *DB) GetVotePack(id string) (*VotePack, error) {

        var votePack *VotePack

        err := db.QueryRow(
                "SELECT id, question, description, start_date AS startDate, end_date AS endDate, thank_you AS thankYou, curriculum WHERE id = ?", id).Scan(
                &votePack.id, &votePack.question, &votePack.description, &votePack.startDate, &votePack.endDate, &votePack.thankYou, &votePack.curriculum)

        switch {
        case err == sql.ErrNoRows:
                return nil, err
        case err != nil:
                return nil, err
         default:
                return votePack, nil
        }
}

So with all of the above, I want to pass the models.DataSource around as a middleware so it can be accessed like this:

public/public.go

package public

import (
        "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func GetCurrentVotePack(context *gin.Context) {
        db := context.Keys["DB"]

        votePack, err := db.GetVotePack("c5039ecd-e774-4c19-a2b9-600c2134784d")
        if err != nil{
                context.String(404, "Votepack Not Found")
        }
        context.JSON(200, votePack)
}

However I get public\public.go:10: db.GetVotePack undefined (type interface {} is interface with no methods)

When I inspect in the debugger (using Webstorm with plugin) the db is just an empty object. I'm trying to be good and avoid global variable use

The values within context.Keys are all of type interface{}, so db will not be able to call methods from type *DB until it's converted back to that type.

The safe way:

db, ok := context.Keys["DB"].(*DB)
if !ok {
        //Handle case of no *DB instance
}
// db is now a *DB value

The less safe way, which will panic if context.Keys["DB"] is not a value of type *DB:

db := context.Keys["DB"].(*DB)
// db is now a *DB value

Effective Go has a section on this.