gwuu (go web ultimate utils)

This is a sel of ultimate utils when using GO language to develop web applications.

Contains following tools:

• gorm - set of functions to extend gorm features:

  • build connection string (Postgres, Mssql, Mysql)
  • create database (Postgres, Mssql, Mysql)
  • drop database (Postgres, Mssql, Mysql)
  • get next identifier (sometimes GORM is unable to create entities with auto-generated identifiers therefore i have to gen it manually)
  • get portion of data (data paging)

• testingutils - a set of utils that makes unit testing easily

• api/rest - a set of extensions for github.comgorilla/mux

  • easy register HandlerFunc and you'll get auto Preflight handler register too (response on OPTION resource) so that you API automatically support CORS now.

1. Gorm

As were mentioned above we could make connection to any database (MySql, MsSql or Postgres) with creation specified database before, drop database. This functionality is especially useful in unit tests. I.e. see unit tests for more details. There are

func TestPostgresOpenDbWithCreate(t *testing.T) {
    // Create Db when open
	cfg := gorm.Config{}
	connStr := BuildConnectionString(Postgres, "127.0.0.1", 5432, "gwuu_examples", dbUser, dbPassword, "disable")
	testOpenDbWithCreateAndCheck(t, connStr, Postgres, &cfg)
}

func TestMysqlOpenDbWithCreate(t *testing.T) {
	cfg := gorm.Config{}
	connStr := BuildConnectionString(Mysql, "127.0.0.1", 3306, "gwuu_examples", dbUser, dbPassword, "")
	testOpenDbWithCreateAndCheck(t, connStr, Mysql, &cfg)
}

func TestMssqlOpenDbWithCreate(t *testing.T) {
	cfg := gorm.Config{}
	connStr := BuildConnectionString(Mssql, "localhost", 1433, "GwuuExamples", dbUser, dbPassword, "")
	testOpenDbWithCreateAndCheck(t, connStr, Mssql, &cfg)
}

func testOpenDbWithCreateAndCheck(t *testing.T, connStr string, dialect SqlDialect, options *gorm.Config) {
	db := OpenDb2(dialect, connStr, true, true, options)
	assert.NotNil(t, db)
	// Close
	CloseDb(db)
	// Drop
	DropDb(dialect, connStr)
	// Check
	checkResult := CheckDb(dialect, connStr)
	assert.Equal(t, false, checkResult)
}

We could omit check parameter in that case Open database or Open database with create takes less time. We are also could use function CreateRandomDb to get new database with random name.

2. Testingutils

Contains following features:

• a set of CheckType functions that allow to compare ARRAYS of primitive types i.e. CheckStrings, CheckFloats64, CheckComplexes & others for comparison all following primitive types:
  • []int
  • []int32
  • []uint32
  • []int64
  • []uint64
  • []float32
  • []float64
  • []complex64
  • []complex128

All arrays could be compared with ORDER or WITHOUT it (for more details please see checkers_test). And one more thing that should be noted - all Check functions contains assertErr parameter which means if it was set to True error will be asserted via assert.Equal or assert.True function

floats and complex types could be compared with tollerance i.e.:

func TestCheckFloat64SuccessfulWithOrder(t *testing.T) {
	arr1 := make([]float64, 3)
	arr1[0] = 10.55
	arr1[1] = 99
	arr1[2] = 55.9

	arr2 := make([]float64, 3)
	arr2[0] = 11.01
	arr2[1] = 99
	arr2[2] = 55.6

	checkResult, err := CheckFloats64(t, arr1, arr2, 0.5, true, true)
	assert.True(t, checkResult)
	assert.Empty(t, err)
}

func TestCheckComplex64SuccessfulWithOrder(t *testing.T) {
	arr1 := make([]complex64, 3)
	arr1[0] = complex(10.55, 9.12)
	arr1[1] = complex(99, 101)
	arr1[2] = complex(55.9, 67.23)

	arr2 := make([]complex64, 3)
	arr2[0] = complex(11.01, 9.49)
	arr2[1] = complex(99, 100.91)
	arr2[2] = complex(55.6, 66.88)

	checkResult, err := CheckComplexes(t, arr1, arr2, 0.5, true, true)
	assert.True(t, checkResult)
	assert.Empty(t, err)
}

3. Api/rest

This package is a extension for gorilla/mux. In our lib we are having HandleFunc function which signature is almost equals to mux.Router.HandleFunc. Using HandleFunc from gwuu you will forget about Preflight Handlers register (OPTIONS method), they registers automatically and no more additional HandlerFunc anymore for OPTIONS method handling! See example:

handler := NewWebApiHandler(true, AnyOrigin)
	// Get only method
	realmResource := "/api/realm/"
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, realmResource, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "GET")
	// full crud
	userResourceRoot := "/api/user/"
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, userResourceRoot, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "GET")
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, userResourceRoot, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "POST")
	userResourceById := "/api/user/{id:[0-9]+}/"
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, userResourceById, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "GET")
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, userResourceById, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "PUT")
	handler.HandleFunc(handler.Router, userResourceById, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {

	}, "DELETE")

Condider above example you also get 3 additional automatical OPTIONS method handlers for:

• OPTIONS /api/realm/
• OPTIONS /api/user/
• OPTIONS /api/user/{id}/

Using our HandlerFunc you won't ever get CORS Error in JS frameworks/Web Browser.

Useful materials

• our article on medium about how to work with https://m-ushakov.medium.com/intricacies-of-working-with-gorm-3d336f310
• our Yandex Zen article: https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5f9bbb6eb5987b74e7014a6f/osobennosti-raboty-s-gorm-605234513eb679416826d74c