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
- (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:*})
- 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
- 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](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful-openapi), see [go-restful-swagger12](https://github.com/emicklei/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.