Web package

Helpers for WebServices using Go's net/http and github.com/labstack/echo packages.

Features

Server

• Gzip enabled by default
• Simplified middleware builders for metrics and access logs
• Error logs for operational errors or request handling errors. Also supports setting a custom error log handler.

Client

• Automatically set the user agent to identify callers. Uses env vars or user information to construct the user agent string
  • go-webservice/v0/{USER_AGENT}
  • go-webservice/v0/{SYSTEM}/{COMPONENT}
  • go-webservice/v0/{USER_INFO}
• Default headers.
• Default timeouts on requests with support for setting the default timeout or on a per request basis.
• Request builder.
• Supports context.
• Simplified response handling with body closed before returning data to the caller.

Examples

Check out the code examples.