Pipes

Minimalist HTTP middleware library for Go web applications running on Google App Engine. Works great with Mux library.

Why to use middlewares and pipelines?

It helps to reuse request handling code and achieve better separation of concerns.

Usage

Documentation

// Code snippet from a real web application.
apiPipeline := pipes.New().
		Use(middleware.AppEngineContext).   // HTTP request will first get Google App Engine context
		Use(panicMiddleware).               // panic handler will recover, log and present user friendly message if panic is called              
		Use(rateLimitMiddleware).           // rate limitter will make sure that our API endpoint is not overwhelmed
		Use(cookieAuthMiddleware).          // auth cookie will be validated and user object added to the context
        Use(authAPIMiddleware)              // if user is missing, unauthorised API response will be returned without running any business logic

router := mux.NewRouter()
router.HandleFunc("/api/test", apiPipeline.Use(apiHandler).Build())
router.HandleFunc("/api/test2", apiPipeline.Use(api2Handler).Build())
http.Handle("/", router)

func apiHandler(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, next pipes.Next){
    fmt.Fprint(w, "OK")
    next(ctx)
}
func api2Handler(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, next pipes.Next){
    fmt.Fprint(w, "OK2")
    next(ctx)
}