rest-demo

This Golang application is REST API.

Frameworks used:

• Echo to build the website: https://github.com/labstack/echo
• XORM to populate the database: https://xorm.io/

Setup

Configuration file

Create a rest_task.ini configuration file and place it wherever you want. Configuration should look like this

[database]
host = localhost
name = postgres
password =postgres

[main]
secret_key = "RANDOMKEYGOESHERE"

Export config path

put this line into ~/.bashrc file

export REST_TASK_SETTINGS=path/to/config/rest_task.ini 

change path/to/config/ with your config path.

Run migration

in order to run migration you need to install golang-migrate/migrate

after installing run this command from project's directory

 migrate -path ./contrib/migrations/ -database "postgres://USERNAME:@localhost:5432/DBNAME?sslmode=disable" up

change USERNAME and DBNAME with you username and dbname

Build

Run make command it will take care of rest

make

Help

./bin/rest --help

Serve api

./bin/rest serve_api