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Lion is a fast HTTP router for building modern scalable modular REST APIs in Go
https://github.com/celrenheit/lion
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Lion is a fast HTTP router for building modern scalable modular REST APIs in Go
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/celrenheit/lion
- Owner: celrenheit
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-03-19T23:30:47.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-11-15T10:27:03.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-19T15:46:08.245Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: fast, golang, handler, http, router, subdomain
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 753 KB
- Stars: 745
- Watchers: 29
- Forks: 32
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Lion [](https://travis-ci.org/celrenheit/lion) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/celrenheit/lion) [](LICENSE) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/celrenheit/lion)
Lion is a [fast](#benchmarks) HTTP router for building modern scalable modular REST APIs written in Go (golang).
## Features
* **Go1-like guarantee**: The API will **not** change in Lion v2.x (once released).
* **Modular**: You can define your own modules to easily build a scalable architecture
* **RESTful**: You can define modules to groups http resources together.
* **Subdomains**: Select which subdomains, hosts a router can match. You can specify it a param or a wildcard e.g. `*.example.org`. More infos [here](#match-hosts).
* **Near zero garbage**: Lion generates near zero garbage[*](#benchmarks). The allocations generated comes from the net/http.Request.WithContext() works.
It makes a shallow copy of the request.
## Table of contents
- [Install/Update](#installupdate)
- [Hello World](#hello-world)
- [Getting started with modules and resources](#getting-started-with-modules-and-resources)
- [Using net/http.Handler](#using-nethttphandler)
- [Using net/http.HandlerFunc](#using-nethttphandlerfunc)
- [Middlewares](#middlewares)
- [Using Named Middlewares](#using-named-middlewares)
- [Using Third-Party Middlewares](#using-third-party-middlewares)
- [Negroni](#negroni)
- [Matching Subdomains/Hosts](#matching-subdomainshosts)
- [Resources](#resources)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Using GET, POST, PUT, DELETE http methods](#using-get-post-put-delete-http-methods)
- [Using middlewares](#using-middlewares)
- [Group routes by a base path](#group-routes-by-a-base-path)
- [Mounting a router into a base path](#mounting-a-router-into-a-base-path)
- [Default middlewares](#default-middlewares)
- [Custom Middlewares](#custom-middlewares)
- [Custom Logger example](#custom-logger-example)
- [Benchmarks](#benchmarks)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [License](#license)
- [Todo](#todo)
- [Credits](#credits)
## Install/Update
Lion requires Go 1.7+:
```shell
$ go get -u github.com/celrenheit/lion
```
Next versions of Lion will support the latest Go version and the previous one.
For example, when Go 1.8 is out, Lion will support Go 1.7 and Go 1.8.
## Hello World
```go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"github.com/celrenheit/lion"
"context"
)
func Home(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Home")
}
func Hello(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
name := lion.Param(r, "name")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello %s!",name)
}
func main() {
l := lion.Classic()
l.GetFunc("/", Home)
l.GetFunc("/hello/:name", Hello)
l.Run()
}
```
Try it yourself by running the following command from the current directory:
```shell
$ go run examples/hello/hello.go
```
## Getting started with modules and resources
We are going to build a sample products listing REST api (without database handling to keep it simple):
```go
func main() {
l := lion.Classic()
api := l.Group("/api")
api.Module(Products{})
l.Run()
}
// Products module is accessible at url: /api/products
// It handles getting a list of products or creating a new product
type Products struct{}
func (p Products) Base() string {
return "/products"
}
func (p Products) Get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Fetching all products")
}
func (p Products) Post(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Creating a new product")
}
func (p Products) Routes(r *lion.Router) {
// Defining a resource for getting, editing and deleting a single product
r.Resource("/:id", OneProduct{})
}
// OneProduct resource is accessible at url: /api/products/:id
// It handles getting, editing and deleting a single product
type OneProduct struct{}
func (p OneProduct) Get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
id := lion.Param(r, "id")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Getting product: %s", id)
}
func (p OneProduct) Put(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
id := lion.Param(r, "id")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Updating article: %s", id)
}
func (p OneProduct) Delete(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
id := lion.Param(r, "id")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Deleting article: %s", id)
}
```
Try it yourself. Run:
```shell
$ go run examples/modular-hello/modular-hello.go
```
Open your web browser to [http://localhost:3000/api/products](http://localhost:3000/api/products) or [http://localhost:3000/api/products/123](http://localhost:3000/api/products/123). You should see "_Fetching all products_" or "_Getting product: 123_".
### Using net/http.Handler
Handlers should implement the native net/http.Handler:
```go
l.Get("/get", get)
l.Post("/post", post)
l.Put("/put", put)
l.Delete("/delete", delete)
```
### Using net/http.HandlerFunc
You can use native net/http.Handler (`func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)`):
```go
func myHandlerFunc(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hi!")
}
l.GetFunc("/get", myHandlerFunc)
l.PostFunc("/post", myHandlerFunc)
l.PutFunc("/put", myHandlerFunc)
l.DeleteFunc("/delete", myHandlerFunc)
```
## Middlewares
Middlewares should implement the Middleware interface:
```go
type Middleware interface {
ServeNext(http.Handler) http.Handler
}
```
The ServeNext function accepts a http.Handler and returns a http.Handler.
You can also use MiddlewareFuncs which are basically just `func(http.Handler) http.Handler`
For example:
```go
func middlewareFunc(next Handler) Handler {
return next
}
```
### Using Named Middlewares
Named middlewares are designed to be able to reuse a previously defined middleware. For example, if you have a EnsureAuthenticated middleware that check whether a user is logged in.
You can define it once and reuse later in your application.
```go
l := lion.New()
l.Define("EnsureAuthenticated", NewEnsureAuthenticatedMiddleware())
```
To reuse it later in your application, you can use the `UseNamed` method.
If it cannot find the named middleware if the current Router instance it will try to find it in the parent router.
If a named middleware is not found it will panic.
```go
api := l.Group("/api")
api.UseNamed("EnsureAuthenticated")
```
### Using Third-Party Middlewares
#### Negroni
In v1, negroni was supported directly using UseNegroni.
It still works but you will have to use .UseNext and pass it a [negroni.HandlerFunc](https://godoc.org/github.com/urfave/negroni#HandlerFunc):
`func(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, next http.HandlerFunc)`
This way if you prefer to use this kind of middleware, you can.
You can use [Negroni](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni) middlewares
you can find a list of third party middlewares [here](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni#third-party-middleware)
```go
l := lion.New()
l.UseNext(negroni.NewRecovery().ServeHTTP)
l.Run()
```
## Matching Subdomains/Hosts
You can match a specific or multiple hosts. You can use patterns in the same way they are currently used for routes with only some [edge cases](https://godoc.org/github.com/celrenheit/lion#Router.Host).
The main difference is that you will have to use the '**$**' character instead of '**:**' to define a parameter.
admin.example.com will match admin.example.com
$username.blog.com will match messi.blog.com
will not match my.awesome.blog.com
*.example.com will match my.admin.example.com
```go
l := New()
// Group by /api basepath
api := l.Group("/api")
// Specific to v1
v1 := api.Subrouter().
Host("v1.example.org")
v1.Get("/", v1Handler)
// Specific to v2
v2 := api.Subrouter().
Host("v2.example.org")
v2.Get("/", v2Handler)
l.Run()
```
## Resources
You can define a resource to represent a REST, CRUD api resource.
You define global middlewares using Uses() method. For defining custom middlewares for each http method, you have to create a function which name is composed of the http method suffixed by "Middlewares". For example, if you want to define middlewares for the Get method you will have to create a method called: **GetMiddlewares()**.
A resource is defined by the following methods. **Everything is optional**:
```go
// Global middlewares for the resource (Optional)
Uses() Middlewares
// Middlewares for the http methods (Optional)
GetMiddlewares() Middlewares
PostMiddlewares() Middlewares
PutMiddlewares() Middlewares
DeleteMiddlewares() Middlewares
// HandlerFuncs for each HTTP Methods (Optional)
Get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
Post(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
Put(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
Delete(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
```
**_Example_**:
```go
package main
type todolist struct{}
func (t todolist) Uses() lion.Middlewares {
return lion.Middlewares{lion.NewLogger()}
}
func (t todolist) Get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "getting todos")
}
func main() {
l := lion.New()
l.Resource("/todos", todolist{})
l.Run()
}
```
## Modules
Modules are a way to modularize an api which can then define submodules, subresources and custom routes.
A module is defined by the following methods:
```go
// Required: Base url pattern of the module
Base() string
// Routes accepts a Router instance. This method is used to define the routes of this module.
// Each routes defined are relative to the Base() url pattern
Routes(*Router)
// Optional: Requires named middlewares. Refer to Named Middlewares section
Requires() []string
```
```go
package main
type api struct{}
// Required: Base url
func (t api) Base() string { return "/api" }
// Required: Here you can declare sub-resources, submodules and custom routes.
func (t api) Routes(r *lion.Router) {
r.Module(v1{})
r.Get("/custom", t.CustomRoute)
}
// Optional: Attach Get method to this Module.
// ====> A Module is also a Resource.
func (t api) Get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "This also a resource accessible at http://localhost:3000/api")
}
// Optional: Defining custom routes
func (t api) CustomRoute(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "This a custom route for this module http://localhost:3000/api/")
}
func main() {
l := lion.New()
// Registering the module
l.Module(api{})
l.Run()
}
```
## Examples
### Using GET, POST, PUT, DELETE http methods
```go
l := lion.Classic()
// Using Handlers
l.Get("/get", get)
l.Post("/post", post)
l.Put("/put", put)
l.Delete("/delete", delete)
// Using functions
l.GetFunc("/get", getFunc)
l.PostFunc("/post", postFunc)
l.PutFunc("/put", putFunc)
l.DeleteFunc("/delete", deleteFunc)
l.Run()
```
### Using middlewares
```go
func main() {
l := lion.Classic()
// Using middleware
l.Use(lion.NewLogger())
// Using middleware functions
l.UseFunc(someMiddlewareFunc)
l.GetFunc("/hello/:name", Hello)
l.Run()
}
```
### Group routes by a base path
```go
l := lion.Classic()
api := l.Group("/api")
v1 := l.Group("/v1")
v1.GetFunc("/somepath", gettingFromV1)
v2 := l.Group("/v2")
v2.GetFunc("/somepath", gettingFromV2)
l.Run()
```
### Mounting a router into a base path
```go
l := lion.Classic()
sub := lion.New()
sub.GetFunc("/somepath", getting)
l.Mount("/api", sub)
```
### Default middlewares
`lion.Classic()` creates a router with default middlewares (Recovery, RealIP, Logger, Static).
If you wish to create a blank router without any middlewares you can use `lion.New()`.
```go
func main() {
// This a no middlewares registered
l := lion.New()
l.Use(lion.NewLogger())
l.GetFunc("/hello/:name", Hello)
l.Run()
}
```
### Custom Middlewares
Custom middlewares should implement the Middleware interface:
```go
type Middleware interface {
ServeNext(Handler) Handler
}
```
You can also make MiddlewareFuncs to use using `.UseFunc()` method.
It has to accept a Handler and return a Handler:
```go
func(next Handler) Handler
```
#### Custom Logger example
```go
type logger struct{}
func (*logger) ServeNext(next lion.Handler) lion.Handler {
return lion.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
start := time.Now()
next.ServeHTTPC(c, w, r)
fmt.Printf("Served %s in %s\n", r.URL.Path, time.Since(start))
})
}
```
Then in the main function you can use the middleware using:
```go
l := lion.New()
l.Use(&logger{})
l.GetFunc("/hello/:name", Hello)
l.Run()
```
## Benchmarks
TODO: Update this when v2 is released.
## Contributing
Want to contribute to Lion ? Awesome! Feel free to submit an issue or a pull request.
Here are some ways you can help:
* Report bugs
* Share a middleware or a module
* Improve code/documentation
* Propose new features
* and more...
## License
The project is licensed under the MIT license available here: https://github.com/celrenheit/lion/blob/master/LICENSE.
The benchmarks present in _bench\_test.go_ is licensed under a BSD-style license available here: https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark/blob/master/LICENSE.
## Todo
* [x] Support for Go 1.7 context
* [x] Host matching
* [x] Automatic OPTIONS handler
* [ ] Modules
* [ ] JWT Auth module
* [x] Better static file handling
* [ ] More documentation
## Credits
Lion v1 was inspired by [pressly/chi](https://github.com/pressly/chi).
If Lion is not the right http router for you, check out chi.
Parts of Lion taken for other projects:
* [Negroni](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni)
* Static and Recovery middlewares are taken from Negroni
* [Goji](https://github.com/zenazn/goji/)
* RealIP middleware is taken from goji
* [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin)
* ResponseWriter and Logger inspiration are inspired by gin