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Austin Cunningham
Austin Cunningham

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Golang Mongo driver and Openshift

#go #mongodb #openshift #api

I wanted to learn how to create a rest Api with Golang and MongoDb, found a lot of tutorials using the mgo library but as this was unmaintained. I used the Mongo driver instead with gorilla/mux. First set up package and imports.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "context"
    "encoding/json"

    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo"
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/options"
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/bson"
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/bson/primitive"
    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
    "github.com/austincunningham/GolangUserRestApi/models"
)
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Setup the routes and Mongo db connection

// setting a global DB struct to be accessible to route functions
type DB struct {
    collection *mongo.Collection
}

// Define the routes
func main() {
    fmt.Printf("REST API User from golang\n")

    // Set client options
    clientOptions := options.Client().ApplyURI("mongodb://localhost:27017")

    // Connect to MongoDB
    client, err := mongo.Connect(context.TODO(), clientOptions)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // Check the connection
    err = client.Ping(context.TODO(), nil)

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer client.Disconnect(context.TODO())

    collection := client.Database("golang-user").Collection("users")
    db := &DB{collection: collection }



    fmt.Println("Connected to MongoDB!")

    //outputs
    fmt.Printf("Server listing on http://localhost:8080/users")
    fmt.Printf("\nCTRL C to exit\n")

    // Controller for endpoints
    r := mux.NewRouter()
    r.HandleFunc("/users", db.AllUsers).Methods("GET")
    r.HandleFunc("/users/{id}", db.FindUser).Methods("GET")
    r.HandleFunc("/users", db.CreateUser).Methods("POST")
    r.HandleFunc("/users/{id}", db.UpdateUser).Methods("PUT")
    r.HandleFunc("/users/{id}", db.DeleteUser).Methods("DELETE")

    if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}
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Setup the model package

package models

import (
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/bson/primitive"
)

// the properties in Mongodb document
type User struct {
    Id primitive.ObjectID `json:"_id,omitempty" bson:"_id,omitempty"`
    Name string `bson:"name" json:"name"`
    Email string `bson:"email" json:"email"`
    Password string `bson:"password" json:"password"`
}
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Back in the main package define the
GET all users function

// find all users
func (db *DB)AllUsers(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){
    fmt.Println("AllUsers GET")
    // create an array of users
    var results []models.User
    var user models.User
    // set the api header
    res.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    // set the find options, not sure I need this
    findOptions := options.Find()
    // use the find command to get all
    result , err := db.collection.Find(context.TODO(), bson.D{{}}, findOptions)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("AllUsers GET failed to query DB", err)
    }
    //go through the result and decode each element at a time
    for result.Next(context.TODO()){
        err := result.Decode(&user)
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
        // add to the array
        results = append(results, user)
    }
    //return the array as json
    json.NewEncoder(res).Encode(results)
}
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GET find user by id function

// find a single user
func (db *DB)FindUser(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){
    fmt.Println("FindUser GET")
    var user models.User
    params := mux.Vars(req)
    objectId, _ := primitive.ObjectIDFromHex(params["id"])
    res.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    filter := bson.M{"_id": objectId}
    err := db.collection.FindOne(context.TODO(), filter).Decode(&user)
    if err != nil{
        fmt.Println("error",err)
    }
    json.NewEncoder(res).Encode(user)

}
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DELETE user by id is pretty similar

func (db *DB)DeleteUser(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){
    fmt.Println("DeleteUser DELETE")
    params := mux.Vars(req)
    objectId, _ := primitive.ObjectIDFromHex(params["id"])
    res.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    filter := bson.M{"_id": objectId}
    result, err := db.collection.DeleteOne(context.TODO(), filter)
    if err != nil{
        fmt.Println("DeleteUser DELETE failed to query DB",err)
    }
    json.NewEncoder(res).Encode(result)
}
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PUT update user by id

func (db *DB)UpdateUser(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){
    fmt.Println("UpdateUser PUT")
    var user models.User
    // get the id from the url
    params := mux.Vars(req)
    objectId, _ := primitive.ObjectIDFromHex(params["id"])
    // set the header info
    res.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    //set the filter on the id
    filter := bson.M{"_id": objectId}
    // decode the request body 
    _ = json.NewDecoder(req.Body).Decode(&user)
    update := bson.M{"$set": &user}
    result,err := db.collection.UpdateOne(context.TODO(), filter, update)
    if err != nil{
        fmt.Println("UpdateOne PUT failed to query DB ",err)
    }
    json.NewEncoder(res).Encode(result)
}
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POST create user

func (db *DB)CreateUser(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){
    fmt.Println("CreateUser POST")
    var user models.User
    res.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
    _ = json.NewDecoder(req.Body).Decode(&user)

    result, err := db.collection.InsertOne(context.TODO(), user)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("CreateUser Error inserting record ", err)
    }
    json.NewEncoder(res).Encode(result)
}
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So the rest api is all setup at this point to connect to my local MongoDb.

Setup the container and deploy to Openshift

First I set up a project in Openshift 3.11, on Minishift

oc new-project golanguser
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Login to the Openshift console and deploy Mongodb from the Openshift catalog. Open the project in the console and click on Browse Catalog
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Click on Mongodb
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Follow the creation flow until you get to Configuration set the following as some will be auto generated if you don't

  • Database Service Name
  • MongoDB Connection Username
  • MongoDB Connection Password
  • MongoDB Database Name
  • MongoDB Admin Password

Once set click the create button
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The Results screen will have the connection url. I will be using part of the connection url in the code.
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Change the connection url in the main package here

// Set client options
    clientOptions := options.Client().ApplyURI("mongodb://myadmin:password@mongodb:27017")
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And make sure that your collection is pointing at the correct db

collection := client.Database("golanguser").Collection("users")
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Once these are set we are ready to create the golang container with the following dockerfile

# Start from the latest golang base image
FROM golang:latest

# Set the Current Working Directory inside the container
WORKDIR /app

# Copy go mod and sum files
COPY go.mod go.sum ./

# Download all dependencies. Dependencies will be cached if the go.mod and go.sum files are not changed
RUN go mod download

# Copy the source from the current directory to the Working Directory inside the container
COPY . .

# Build the Go app
RUN go build -o main .

# Expose port 8080 to the outside world
EXPOSE 8080

# Command to run the executable
CMD ["./main"]
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Build the image and push it to a remote registry

docker build -t austincunningham/golanguserrestapi:latest .
docker push austincunningham/golanguserrestapi:latest
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You can then add the Image to project in the Openshift console Add to Project/Deploy Image

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Enter the Image Name click the search icon and deploy when the image is found

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Once the container is deployed you can test the connection between MongoDb and the rest api as follows

oc project golanguser
oc get pods
NAME                        READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
golanguserrestapi-1-7px9p   1/1       Running   1          14h
mongodb-1-s9fkd             1/1       Running   6          8d
# log into the pod
oc exec -it golanguserrestapi-1-7px9p bash
# curl and POST some data
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json"   --request POST   --data '{"name":"austin","email":"austin@austin.com","password":"password"}' http://localhost:8080/users
# successful response
{"InsertedID":"5ef7a5dba99a0cb3de9302dc"}
# curl the GET all endpoint
curl http://localhost:8080/users
[{"_id":"5ef7a5dba99a0cb3de9302dc","name":"austin","email":"austin@austin.com","password":"password"}]
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Final step is to add a route click on the rest container and create route
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Except the defaults your route will appear in the console it can be accessed from any where with the users route

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Code lives on github and the container image on dockerhub

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Philipp Gysel •

wow great stuff, thanks Austin! Always great to have a working example 😀

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