Developing a RESTful API with Go and Gin
This tutorial introduces the basics of writing a RESTful web service API with Go and the Gin Web Framework (Gin).
You’ll get the most out of this tutorial if you have a basic familiarity with Go and its tooling. If this is your first exposure to Go, please see Tutorial: Get started with Go for a quick introduction.
Gin simplifies many coding tasks associated with building web applications, including web services. In this tutorial, you’ll use Gin to route requests, retrieve request details, and marshal JSON for responses.
In this tutorial, you will build a RESTful API server with two endpoints. Your example project will be a repository of data about vintage jazz records.
The tutorial includes the following sections:
- Design API endpoints.
- Create a folder for your code.
- Create the data.
- Write a handler to return all items.
- Write a handler to add a new item.
- Write a handler to return a specific item.
Design API endpoints
You’ll build an API that provides access to a store selling vintage recordings on vinyl. So you’ll need to provide endpoints through which a client can get and add albums for users.
When developing an API, you typically begin by designing the endpoints. Your API’s users will have more success if the endpoints are easy to understand.
Here are the endpoints you’ll create in this tutorial.
/albums
GET
– Get a list of all albums, returned as JSON.POST
– Add a new album from request data sent as JSON.
/albums/:id
GET
– Get an album by its ID, returning the album data as JSON.
Next, you’ll create a project for your code.
Create a project for your code
To begin, create a project for the code you’ll write.
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Ensure that the cloudshell_open folder is selected.
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Click the File Menu, then click New Folder.
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In the New Folder dialog, enter
web-service-gin
for the folder name, then click OK. -
Click the File Menu, then click Open Workspace.
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In the Open Workspace dialog, select the cloudshell_open/web-service-gin folder you just created, then click Open.
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Click the New Terminal menu command to open a new Cloud Shell terminal.
The terminal prompt should be in the web-service-gin directory.
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Create a module in which you can manage dependencies.
Run the
go mod init
command, giving it the path of the module your code will be in.go mod init \ example.com/web-service-gin go: creating new go.mod: module \ example.com/web-service-gin
This command creates a go.mod file in which dependencies you might add will be listed for tracking. For more, be sure to see Managing dependencies.
Next, you’ll design data structures for handling data.
Create the data
To keep things simple for the tutorial, you’ll store data in memory. A more typical API would interact with a database.
Note that storing data in memory means that the set of albums will be lost each time you stop the server, then recreated when you start it.
Write the code
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Click the File Menu, then click New File.
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In the New File dialog, enter
main.go
for the file name, then click OK. -
Into main.go, at the top of the file, paste the package declaration below.
package main
A standalone program (as opposed to a library) is always in package
main
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Beneath the package declaration, paste the following declaration of an
album
struct. You’ll use this to store album data in memory.Struct tags such as
json:"artist"
specify what a field’s name should be when the struct’s contents are serialized into JSON. Without them, the JSON would use the struct’s capitalized field names – a style not as common in JSON.// album represents data about a record album. type album struct { ID string `json:"id"` Title string `json:"title"` Artist string `json:"artist"` Price float64 `json:"price"` }
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Beneath the struct declaration you just added, paste the following slice of
album
structs containing data you’ll use to start.// albums slice to seed record album data. var albums = []album{ {ID: "1", Title: "Blue Train", Artist: "John Coltrane", Price: 56.99}, {ID: "2", Title: "Jeru", Artist: "Gerry Mulligan", Price: 17.99}, {ID: "3", Title: "Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown", Artist: "Sarah Vaughan", Price: 39.99}, }
Next, you’ll write code to implement your first endpoint.
Write a handler to return all items
When the client makes a request at GET /albums
, you want to return all the albums as JSON.
To do this, you’ll write the following:
- Logic to prepare a response
- Code to map the request path to your logic
Note that this is the reverse of how they’ll be executed at runtime, but you’re adding dependencies first, then the code that depends on them.
Write the code
As you follow these steps, ignore the errors visible in the editor. You’ll fix these in Run the code, below.
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Beneath the struct code you added in the preceding section, paste the following code to get the album list.
This
getAlbums
function creates JSON from the slice ofalbum
structs, writing the JSON into the response.// getAlbums responds with the list of all albums as JSON. func getAlbums(c *gin.Context) { c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusOK, albums) }
In this code, you:
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Write a
getAlbums
function that takes agin.Context
parameter. Note that you could have given this function any name – neither Gin nor Go require a particular function name format.gin.Context
is the most important part of Gin. It carries request details, validates and serializes JSON, and more. (Despite the similar name, this is different from Go’s built-incontext
package.) -
Call
Context.IndentedJSON
to serialize the struct into JSON and add it to the response.The function’s first argument is the HTTP status code you want to send to the client. Here, you’re passing the
StatusOK
constant from thenet/http
package to indicate200 OK
.Note that you can replace
Context.IndentedJSON
with a call toContext.JSON
to send more compact JSON. In practice, the indented form is much easier to work with when debugging and the size difference is usually small.
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Near the top of main.go, just beneath the
albums
slice declaration, paste the code below to assign the handler function to an endpoint path.This sets up an association in which
getAlbums
handles requests to the/albums
endpoint path.func main() { router := gin.Default() router.GET("/albums", getAlbums) router.Run("localhost:8080") }
In this code, you:
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Initialize a Gin router using
Default
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Use the
GET
function to associate theGET
HTTP method and/albums
path with a handler function.Note that you’re passing the name of the
getAlbums
function. This is different from passing the result of the function, which you would do by passinggetAlbums()
(note the parenthesis). -
Use the
Run
function to attach the router to anhttp.Server
and start the server.
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Near the top of main.go, just beneath the package declaration, import the packages you’ll need to support the code you’ve just written.
The first lines of code should look like this:
package main import ( "net/http" "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" )
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Save main.go.
Run the code
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Begin tracking the Gin module as a dependency.
At the command line, use
go get
to add the github.com/gin-gonic/gin module as a dependency for your module. Use a dot argument to mean “get dependencies for code in the current directory.”go get . go get: added \ github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.7.2
Go resolved and downloaded this dependency to satisfy the
import
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In the Cloud Shell terminal window, run the code.
Use a dot argument to mean “run the package in the current directory.”
go run .
Once the code is running, you have a running HTTP server to which you can send requests.
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Open a new terminal window in which to make requests to the running web service.
Click the New Terminal menu command to open a new Cloud Shell terminal.
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In the second Cloud Shell terminal window, use
curl
to make a request to your running web service.curl http://localhost:8080/albums
The command should display the data you seeded the service with.
[ { "id": "1", "title": "Blue Train", "artist": "John Coltrane", "price": 56.99 }, { "id": "2", "title": "Jeru", "artist": "Gerry Mulligan", "price": 17.99 }, { "id": "3", "title": "Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown", "artist": "Sarah Vaughan", "price": 39.99 } ]
You’ve started an API! In the next section, you’ll create another endpoint with code to handle a POST
request to add an item.
Write a handler to add a new item
When the client makes a POST
request at /albums
, you want to add the album described in the request body to the existing albums data.
To do this, you’ll write the following:
- Logic to add the new album to the existing list.
- A bit of code to route the
POST
request to your logic.
Write the code
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Add code to add albums data to the list of albums.
Somewhere after the
import
statements, paste the following code. (The end of the file is a good place for this code, but Go doesn’t enforce the order in which you declare functions.)// postAlbums adds an album from JSON received in the request body. func postAlbums(c *gin.Context) { var newAlbum album // Call BindJSON to bind the received JSON to // newAlbum. if err := c.BindJSON(&newAlbum); err != nil { return } // Add the new album to the slice. albums = append(albums, newAlbum) c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusCreated, newAlbum) }
In this code, you:
- Use
Context.BindJSON
to bind the request body tonewAlbum
. - Append the
album
struct initialized from the JSON to thealbums
slice. - Add a
201
status code to the response, along with JSON representing the album you added.
- Use
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Change your
main
function so that it includes therouter.POST
function, as in the following.func main() { router := gin.Default() router.GET("/albums", getAlbums) router.POST("/albums", postAlbums) router.Run("localhost:8080") }
In this code, you:
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Associate the
POST
method at the/albums
path with thepostAlbums
function.With Gin, you can associate a handler with an HTTP method-and-path combination. In this way, you can separately route requests sent to a single path based on the method the client is using.
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Save main.go.
Run the code
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In the first Cloud Shell terminal window, if the server is still running from the last section, stop it.
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In the first Cloud Shell terminal window, run the code.
go run .
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In the other Cloud Shell terminal window, use the following
curl
command to make a request to your running web service.curl http://localhost:8080/albums \ --include --header \ "Content-Type: application/json" \ --request "POST" --data \ '{"id": "4","title": "The Modern Sound of Betty Carter","artist": "Betty Carter","price": 49.99}'
The command should display headers and JSON for the added album.
HTTP/1.1 201 Created Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:34:12 GMT Content-Length: 116 { "id": "4", "title": "The Modern Sound of Betty Carter", "artist": "Betty Carter", "price": 49.99 }
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As in the previous section, use
curl
to retrieve the full list of albums, which you can use to confirm that the new album was added.curl http://localhost:8080/albums \ --header \ "Content-Type: application/json" \ --request "GET"
The command should display the album list.
[ { "id": "1", "title": "Blue Train", "artist": "John Coltrane", "price": 56.99 }, { "id": "2", "title": "Jeru", "artist": "Gerry Mulligan", "price": 17.99 }, { "id": "3", "title": "Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown", "artist": "Sarah Vaughan", "price": 39.99 }, { "id": "4", "title": "The Modern Sound of Betty Carter", "artist": "Betty Carter", "price": 49.99 } ]
In the next section, you’ll add code to handle a GET
for a specific item.
Write a handler to return a specific item
When the client makes a request to GET /albums/[id]
, you want to return the album whose ID matches the id
path parameter.
To do this, you will:
- Add logic to retrieve the requested album.
- Map the path to the logic.
Write the code
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Beneath the
postAlbums
function you added in the preceding section, paste the following code to retrieve a specific album.This
getAlbumByID
function will extract the ID in the request path, then locate an album that matches.// getAlbumByID locates the album whose ID value matches the id // parameter sent by the client, then returns that album as a response. func getAlbumByID(c *gin.Context) { id := c.Param("id") // Loop over the list of albums, looking for // an album whose ID value matches the parameter. for _, a := range albums { if a.ID == id { c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusOK, a) return } } c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusNotFound, gin.H{"message": "album not found"}) }
In this code, you:
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Use
Context.Param
to retrieve theid
path parameter from the URL. When you map this handler to a path, you’ll include a placeholder for the parameter in the path. -
Loop over the
album
structs in the slice, looking for one whoseID
field value matches theid
parameter value. If it’s found, you serialize thatalbum
struct to JSON and return it as a response with a200 OK
HTTP code.As mentioned above, a real-world service would likely use a database query to perform this lookup.
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Return an HTTP
404
error withhttp.StatusNotFound
if the album isn’t found.
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Finally, change your
main
so that it includes a new call torouter.GET
, where the path is now/albums/:id
, as shown in the following example.func main() { router := gin.Default() router.GET("/albums", getAlbums) router.GET("/albums/:id", getAlbumByID) router.POST("/albums", postAlbums) router.Run("localhost:8080") }
In this code, you:
- Associate the
/albums/:id
path with thegetAlbumByID
function. In Gin, the colon preceding an item in the path signifies that the item is a path parameter.
- Associate the
Run the code
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In the first Cloud Shell terminal window, if the server is still running from the last section, stop it.
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In the first Cloud Shell terminal window, run the code.
go run .
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In the other Cloud Shell terminal window, use
curl
to make a request to your running web service.curl http://localhost:8080/albums/2
The command should display JSON for the album whose ID you used. If the album wasn’t found, you’ll get JSON with an error message.
{ "id": "2", "title": "Jeru", "artist": "Gerry Mulligan", "price": 17.99 }
Continue to the last section for links to useful content.
Conclusion
Congratulations! You’ve just used Go and Gin to write a simple RESTful web service.
Suggested next topics:
- If you’re new to Go, you’ll find useful best practices described in Effective Go and How to write Go code.
- The Go Tour is a great step-by-step introduction to Go fundamentals.
- For more about Gin, see the Gin Web Framework package documentation or the Gin Web Framework docs.
Continue to the next section to view the full code for the application you build with this tutorial.
Completed code
This section contains the code for the application you build with this tutorial.
package main
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
// album represents data about a record album.
type album struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Title string `json:"title"`
Artist string `json:"artist"`
Price float64 `json:"price"`
}
// albums slice to seed record album data.
var albums = []album{
{ID: "1", Title: "Blue Train", Artist: "John Coltrane", Price: 56.99},
{ID: "2", Title: "Jeru", Artist: "Gerry Mulligan", Price: 17.99},
{ID: "3", Title: "Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown", Artist: "Sarah Vaughan", Price: 39.99},
}
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
router.GET("/albums", getAlbums)
router.GET("/albums/:id", getAlbumByID)
router.POST("/albums", postAlbums)
router.Run("localhost:8080")
}
// getAlbums responds with the list of all albums as JSON.
func getAlbums(c *gin.Context) {
c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusOK, albums)
}
// postAlbums adds an album from JSON received in the request body.
func postAlbums(c *gin.Context) {
var newAlbum album
// Call BindJSON to bind the received JSON to
// newAlbum.
if err := c.BindJSON(&newAlbum); err != nil {
return
}
// Add the new album to the slice.
albums = append(albums, newAlbum)
c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusCreated, newAlbum)
}
// getAlbumByID locates the album whose ID value matches the id
// parameter sent by the client, then returns that album as a response.
func getAlbumByID(c *gin.Context) {
id := c.Param("id")
// Loop through the list of albums, looking for
// an album whose ID value matches the parameter.
for _, a := range albums {
if a.ID == id {
c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusOK, a)
return
}
}
c.IndentedJSON(http.StatusNotFound, gin.H{"message": "album not found"})
}
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