The project go-shopping is a playground to practice writing an HTTP service in GoLang using gin and gorm.

The project represents a back-end microservice that serves HTTP calls to do basic CRUD (create/read/update/delete) operations on the items in a small magic shop :)

The project was inspired by this article about Gin&Gorm and this article about application layers. The implementation follows official documentation and this article.

Following this article, the application is separated into 3 layers:

• repositories: interact directly with the database;
• services: contain the business logic;
• handlers: accept requests and builds the responses.

Run all tests in the project, but remove the db file first (workaround):

rm -f routers/items.db
go test ./...

If all tests pass, start the HTTP service with:

go run main.go

and the service will run on localhost:8080.

Additionally, in the root of the repository there are following files:

• Go-Shopping.postman_collection.json - a Postman collection that can be used for reference to send HTTP calls;
• items.db - a small SQLite Database to start using the project without the need to care about any pre-requisites;
• items.sql - a backup file containing SQL queries to create an SQLite Database if it does not exist.