I'm trying to get my hands dirty while playing with some Gorilla/Mux and Go-Redis but I'm facing a little implementation problem here.
Essentially I have a project structured like the following:
Where redismanager.go handles the initialization of a Redis Client:
package redismanager
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/go-redis/redis"
)
func InitRedisClient() redis.Client {
client := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{
Addr : "localhost:6379",
Password: "",
DB : 0, //default
})
pong, err := client.Ping().Result()
if( err != nil ){
fmt.Println("Cannot Initialize Redis Client ", err)
}
fmt.Println("Redis Client Successfully Initialized . . .", pong)
return *client
}
Where main.go calls redismanager.InitRedisClient
and initializes mux.Handlers
:
package main
import (
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
"github.com/go-redis/redis"
"net/http"
"fmt"
"log"
"encoding/json"
"io/ioutil"
"../redismanager"
"../api"
)
type RedisInstance struct {
RInstance *redis.Client
}
func main() {
//Initialize Redis Client
client := redismanager.InitRedisClient()
//Get current redis instance to get passed to different Gorilla-Mux Handlers
redisHandler := &RedisInstance{RInstance:&client}
//Initialize Router Handlers
r := mux.NewRouter()
r.HandleFunc("/todo", redisHandler.AddTodoHandler).
Methods("POST")
fmt.Println("Listening on port :8000 . . .")
// Bind to a port and pass our router in
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8000", r))
}
Now, I can easily define and let work properly AddTodoHandler
in the same file like:
func (c *RedisInstance) AddTodoHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
. . . doSomething
}
But, to make things a bit more modular, I'm trying to move all of these RouteHandlers
inside their respective files in api
package. In order to make that, I need to pass a reference to redisHandler
but I'm having some difficulties when trying to make that with an Handler inside api
package.
For instance, If in the main I add:
r.HandleFunc("/todo/{id}", api.GetTodoHandler(&client)).
Methods("GET")
with gettodo.go
package api
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
"fmt"
"encoding/json"
"github.com/go-redis/redis"
)
func GetTodoHandler(c *RedisInstance) func (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
func (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
. . . doSomething
}
}
It works nicely.
I'm still pretty new to Go and haven't found any cleaner solution to that even after several researches and reads.
Is my approach correct or are there any better ones?