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go-restful
==========
package for building REST-style Web Services using Google Go
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- [Code examples use v3 ](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful/tree/v3/examples )
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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
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### Usage
#### Without Go Modules
All versions up to `v2.*.*` (on the master) are not supporting Go modules.
```
import (
restful "github.com/emicklei/go-restful"
)
```
#### Using Go Modules
As of version `v3.0.0` (on the v3 branch), this package supports Go modules.
```
import (
restful "github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3"
)
```
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### Example
```Go
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")
...
}
```
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[Full API of a UserResource ](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful/blob/v3/examples/user-resource/restful-user-resource.go )
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### Features
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- Routes for request → function mapping with path parameter (e.g. {id} but also prefix_{var} and {var}_suffix) support
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- Configurable router:
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- (default) Fast routing algorithm that allows static elements, [google custom method ](https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/custom_methods ), regular expressions and dynamic parameters in the URL path (e.g. /resource/name:customVerb, /meetings/{id} or /static/{subpath:*})
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- Routing algorithm after [JSR311 ](http://jsr311.java.net/nonav/releases/1.1/spec/spec.html ) that is implemented using (but does **not** accept) regular expressions
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- Request API for reading structs from JSON/XML and accessing parameters (path,query,header)
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- 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)
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- API declaration for Swagger UI ([go-restful-openapi](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful-openapi))
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- 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
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- Inject your own http.Handler using the `HttpMiddlewareHandlerToFilter` function
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## 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
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- Use [jsoniter ](https://github.com/json-iterator/go ) by building this package using a build tag, e.g. `go build -tags=jsoniter .`
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- Use the package variable `TrimRightSlashEnabled` (default true) to control the behavior of matching routes that end with a slash `/`
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## Resources
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- [Example programs ](./examples )
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- [Example posted on blog ](http://ernestmicklei.com/2012/11/go-restful-first-working-example/ )
- [Design explained on blog ](http://ernestmicklei.com/2012/11/go-restful-api-design/ )
- [sourcegraph ](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/emicklei/go-restful )
- [showcase: Zazkia - tcp proxy for testing resiliency ](https://github.com/emicklei/zazkia )
- [showcase: Mora - MongoDB REST Api server ](https://github.com/emicklei/mora )
Type ```git shortlog -s``` for a full list of contributors.
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© 2012 - 2023, http://ernestmicklei.com. MIT License. Contributions are welcome.