This is a simple url-shorten service written in Go, based on gin framework and MongoDB. To manage dependencies i use govendor.

API

/url/add POST

{
    "url": "string",
    "keep_for_days": "int"
}

Parameters:

keep_for_days could be ommited and have to be >= 0. If keep_for_days == 0, the entry is deleted right after server returns it's url by id.

Response:

• 200:

{
    "url": "string",
    "valid_until": "string"
}

url contains short url code
valid_until is a datetime string yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss.f +z

• 400:

{
    "error": "string"
}

error containes error description

/{url_id} GET

Response:

• 301 with Location header containing the original url
• 404 if url_id can not be found