How I write Go HTTP services after seven years

Nice article.

I've been looking into inbound content marketing lately, and this really is a prefect example of that!

I've been doing it a bit differently. Lately I've written 2 generators. Gen1 works using the Go language a := Api("shop") a.Root("/home/dalu/go/src/dalu/shop") mProduct := Model("Product") mProduct.Field("Id",Identifier,true) // (true=optional) mProduct.Field("Name",String,false) mProduct.Field("User",ReferenceId, false) // etc a.Model(mProduct) a.Render()

this creates a "cobra init; cobra add api" app, - handlers - route definitions - data repositories - the models - angular service files

https://github.com/dalu/reforum

next step would be to extend it with a full featured adminUI in angular using some kind of datagrid. I was never big on testing so I'm not generating tests.

version 2 of this generator you write your models and they get inspected and from those models essentially the same thing is generated, only in v1 I wrote it all with fmt.Sprintf and now I'm working on the text templates. I can't really say which one is better. In v1, adding a new type means rummaging through all the instances where a typecheck is done. In v2, it's the same but in text templates. Both feel like they're sub-optimal solutions.

The layout of the handler in v1 is type Handler struct { userRepo productRepo } etc, and a single repo for every model. So if I need data from 2 or more repos it's done in the handler.

But in v2 I have 1 handler that gets passed 1 repo. And the repo is initialized with the various options for dbname dbcollection. Yes it's all MongoDB.

In v1 I have an unintuitive way to query the db. Let's say there's a ProductRepo, I have a ProductParams type when I had to set true to "Name" if I wanted to query the name attrib of that model, then set NameQuery to be a new instance and if I wanted a equal query "name = 'hello'" I'd set the NameQuery.Type = "eq" and NameQuery.Query = "hello".

In v2 I got rid of the "Name = true" thing. And I'm json, then base64 encoding the query for GET queries. This way I can have a more convenient/intuitive and slim Params structure.

I'm currently thinking about doing this, but everything should be server side rendered, aka no angular. But I'm not sure... it's the old problem I faced as a PHP dev. How to create re-usable components, programmatically.

You need to construct your data model and from this model you should be able to deal with ToMany, ManyTo, ToOne, OneTo and the rendering of those Forms and input validation and you need lazy loading for related models.

Qor does something like this in their adminui building blocks. And I've seen something similar in PHP's Symfony.