Render is a package that provides functionality for easily rendering JSON, XML, text, binary data, and HTML templates. This package is a high-modified fork of https://github.com/unrolled/render in order to work with fasthttp, added support for gzip compression also, and a {{ render "path/templateName"}} func for html/template package.

Block Deprecation Notice

Go 1.6 introduces a new block action. This conflicts with Render's included block template function. To provide an easy migration path, a new function was created called partial. It is a duplicate of the old block function. It is advised that all users of the block function update their code to avoid any issues in the future. Previous to Go 1.6, Render's block functionality will continue to work but a message will be logged urging you to migrate to the new partial function.

Usage

Render can be used with pretty much any web framework providing you can access the fasthttp.RequestCtx from your handler. The rendering functions simply wraps Go's existing functionality for marshaling and rendering data.

• HTML: Uses the html/template package to render HTML templates.
• JSON: Uses the encoding/json package to marshal data into a JSON-encoded response.
• XML: Uses the encoding/xml package to marshal data into an XML-encoded response.
• Binary data: Passes the incoming data straight through to the fasthttp.RequestCtx.
• Text: Passes the incoming string straight through to the fasthttp.RequestCtx.

// main.go
package main

import (
    "encoding/xml"
    "github.com/valyala/fasthttp"

    "github.com/fasthttp-contrib/render"
)

type ExampleXml struct {
    XMLName xml.Name `xml:"example"`
    One     string   `xml:"one,attr"`
    Two     string   `xml:"two,attr"`
}

func main() {
    r := render.New()


	requestHandler := func(ctx *fasthttp.RequestCtx) {
  		switch string(ctx.Path()) {
  			case "/data":
     	 		 r.Data(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, []byte("Some binary data here."))
			case "/text":
     	 		   r.Text(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, "Plain text here")
  			case "/json":
     	 		   r.JSON(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, map[string]string{"hello": "json"})
			case "/jsonp":
     	 		 r.JSONP(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, "callbackName", map[string]string{"hello": "jsonp"})
  			case "/xml":
     	 		r.XML(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, ExampleXml{One: "hello", Two: "xml"})
			case "/html":
     	 		// Assumes you have a template in ./templates called "example.html"
        		// $ mkdir -p templates && echo "<h1>Hello {{.}}.</h1>" > templates example.html
       		    r.HTML(ctx, fasthttp.StatusOK, "example", "World")
  			default:
      	 		ctx.Error("Unsupported path", fasthttp.StatusNotFound)
  	  	}
   	}



    fasthttp.ListenAndServe(":8080", requestHandler)
}

<!-- templates/example.html -->
<h1>Hello {{.}}.</h1>

Available Options

Render comes with a variety of configuration options (Note: these are not the default option values. See the defaults below.):

// ...
r := render.New(render.Options{
    Directory: "templates", // Specify what path to load the templates from.
    Asset: func(name string) ([]byte, error) { // Load from an Asset function instead of file.
      return []byte("template content"), nil
    },
    AssetNames: func() []string { // Return a list of asset names for the Asset function
      return []string{"filename.html"}
    },
	Gzip: false, // enable it if you want render through gzip compression
    Layout: "layout", // Specify a layout template. Layouts can call {{ yield }} to render the current template or {{ partial "css" }} to render a partial from the current template.
    Extensions: []string{".html", ".tpml"}, // Specify extensions to load for templates.
    Funcs: []template.FuncMap{AppHelpers}, // Specify helper function maps for templates to access.
    Delims: render.Delims{"{[{", "}]}"}, // Sets delimiters to the specified strings.
    Charset: "UTF-8", // Sets encoding for json and html content-types. Default is "UTF-8".
    IndentJSON: true, // Output human readable JSON.
    IndentXML: true, // Output human readable XML.
    PrefixJSON: []byte(")]}',\n"), // Prefixes JSON responses with the given bytes.
    PrefixXML: []byte("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>"), // Prefixes XML responses with the given bytes.
    HTMLContentType: "application/xhtml+xml", // Output XHTML content type instead of default "text/html".
    IsDevelopment: true, // Render will now recompile the templates on every HTML response.
    UnEscapeHTML: true, // Replace ensure '&<>' are output correctly (JSON only).
    StreamingJSON: true, // Streams the JSON response via json.Encoder.
    RequirePartials: true, // Return an error if a template is missing a partial used in a layout.
    DisableHTTPErrorRendering: true, // Disables automatic rendering of http.StatusInternalServerError when an error occurs.
})
// ...

Default Options

These are the preset options for Render:

r := render.New()

// Is the same as the default configuration options:

r := render.New(render.Options{
    Directory: "templates",
    Asset: nil,
    AssetNames: nil,
	Gzip: false,
    Layout: "",
    Extensions: []string{".html"},
    Funcs: []template.FuncMap{},
    Delims: render.Delims{"{{", "}}"},
    Charset: "UTF-8",
    IndentJSON: false,
    IndentXML: false,
    PrefixJSON: []byte(""),
    PrefixXML: []byte(""),
    HTMLContentType: "text/html",
    IsDevelopment: false,
    UnEscapeHTML: false,
    StreamingJSON: false,
    RequirePartials: false,
    DisableHTTPErrorRendering: false,
})

For more examples and options take a look here