I'm having difficulty while trying to set the Response Code for a Gorilla Mux Route in Go. If I have a very simple route set up as
// dummy test route
router.HandleFunc("/test", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET")
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "{\"message\":\"OK\"}")
}).Methods("POST")
It seems to be working fine and returns a Status of 200 which is fine but if I try to set the response code manually like the below.
// dummy test route
router.HandleFunc("/test", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) // added this to test
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET")
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "{\"message\":\"OK\"}")
}).Methods("POST")
Then it seems to have set the response code to 200 but it still coming through as an error when making a REST request
POST *url*/test net::ERR_FAILED 200
I am not sure why this is but is this not the correct way to set a response code?
You have to write the status code in the end as the WriteHeader
function writes to the response and flushes it.
// dummy test route
router.HandleFunc("/test", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET")
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) // Set your code here, after setting your headers
fmt.Fprintf(w, "{\"message\":\"OK\"}")
}).Methods("POST")