I need to create a HTTP Handler for a REST API.
This REST API have many different objects that are stored in a database (MongoDB in my case).
Currently, I need to write one handler per action per object.
I would like to find a way like it's possible with Generics to write a generic handler that could handle a specific action but for any kind of object (As basically it's just CRUD in most of the case)
How can I do this ?
Here is examples of Handlers I would like to transform into a generic one :
func IngredientIndex(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8") db := r.Context().Value("Database").(*mgo.Database) ingredients := []data.Ingredient{} err := db.C("ingredients").Find(bson.M{}).All(&ingredients) if err != nil { panic(err) } json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(ingredients)}func IngredientGet(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8") vars := mux.Vars(r) logger := r.Context().Value("Logger").(zap.Logger) db := r.Context().Value("Database").(*mgo.Database) ingredient := data.Ingredient{} err := db.C("ingredients").Find(bson.M{"_id": bson.ObjectIdHex(vars["id"])}).One(&ingredient) if err != nil { w.WriteHeader(404) logger.Info("Fail to find entity", zap.Error(err)) } else { json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(ingredient) }}
Basically I would need a handler like this (This is my tentative that doesn't work) :
func ObjectIndex(collection string, container interface{}) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) { return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8") db := r.Context().Value("Database").(*mgo.Database) objects := container err := db.C(collection).Find(bson.M{}).All(&objects) if err != nil { panic(err) } json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(objects) }
How can I do that ?