How to do it...

  1. Install the github.com/gorilla/mux package, using the go get command, as follows:
$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux
  1. Create http-rest-versioning.go where we will define two versions of the same URL path that support the HTTP GET method, with one having v1 as a prefix and the other one with v2 as a prefix in the route, as follows:
package mainimport (  "encoding/json"  "log"  "net/http"  "strings"  "github.com/gorilla/mux")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080")type Route struct {  Name string  Method string  Pattern string  HandlerFunc http.HandlerFunc}type Routes []Routevar routes = Routes{  Route  {    "getEmployees",    "GET",    "/employees",    getEmployees,  },}type Employee struct {  Id string `json:"id"` FirstName string `json:"firstName"` ...

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