Howdy guys,
From my daily work, I'm using PHP & Laravel. One of the feature that I really like & helpful is "Route Model Binding".
Basically, you just need to define your routes and add the Model
into the path, magic happens, you'll:
- Get the Model instance and ready-to-use in the Controllers/Middlewares/Requests.
- Receive 404 not found if the record didn't exists.
With Go, we have to build things for our needs, indeed.
Inspired by Laravel Route Model Binding, I built a Middleware for Gin which will help me to achieve that and I don't have to do Find
then return error
if not exists from the Controller. Extracted that to another layer.
Repo for the Middleware - sethsandaru/go-route-model-binding
Please give it a ⭐ if you actually like/going to use it 💖
Feature
Eg: users/:user
=> Find the User
model instance
- If exists: bind it to the Gin's context via
c.Set
so you can retrieve it - If not: return 404 resource not found
It definitely makes our life easier, doesn't it? I hate to do like: "find record, not exists/error => return 404" in the controller, cuz it's not fun and make my controller's methods a bit longer
- Q: Does it support multiple params eg: "users/:user/update-categories/:category"?
- A: Yes
Mapping - Explicit Binding
Since it won't be as smart as Laravel's way. We need to define a map in order to map your route params with a gORM model.
var routeModelMapping = map[string]modelMapping{
"entity": makeModelMapping(&models.Entity{}, "uuid"),
"user": makeModelMapping(&model.User{}, "uuid"),
// ...
}
Access from Controllers
I love the term Controller and always using MVC in all of my applications.
func (controller *entityController) Show(c *gin.Context) {
entity, _ := c.Get("entity")
respondOk(c, entity)
}
func (controller *userController) Show(c *gin.Context) {
user, _ := c.Get("user")
respondOk(c, user)
}
In order to get the correct type, we have to do typeAssertion - guide here
Conclusions
- PROs:
- Automatically retrieve Model instances using gORM
- 404 not found will be returned if instance not found
- Extracted the
find
andcheck exists
out of the Controller
- CONs:
- Have to do typeAssertion in order to get the real type
Hopefully you'll like this, just like me hehee.
Once again, here is the repo Middleware - sethsandaru/go-route-model-binding
Please give it a ⭐ if you actually like/going to use it 💖
I'm using that Middleware from my open-source project (WIP) Pheasant - Dynamic CRUD Management
Have a nice weekend and happy go-coding!
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