How to do it...

  1. Install the gopkg.in/mgo.v2, gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson, and github.com/gorilla/mux packages, using the go get command, as follows:
$ go get gopkg.in/mgo.v2$ go get gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux
  1. Create delete-record-mongodb.go. Then we connect to MongoDB, get the name of an employee to be deleted from the database as an HTTP request variable, get the named collection, and remove the document, as follows:
package mainimport (  "fmt"  "log"  "net/http"  "github.com/gorilla/mux"  mgo "gopkg.in/mgo.v2"  "gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080"  MONGO_DB_URL = "127.0.0.1")var session *mgo.Sessionvar connectionError errortype Employee struct {  Id int `json:"uid"` Name string `json:"name"` ...

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