Go Web Development Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Install the github.com/gorilla/mux and github.com/gorilla/handlers packages using the go get command, as follows:

$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux$ go get github.com/gorilla/handlers

2. Create http-rest-api.go, where we will define three routes—/status, /get-token and /employees—along with their handlers, as follows:

package mainimport (  "encoding/json"  "log"  "net/http"  "os"  "github.com/gorilla/handlers"  "github.com/gorilla/mux")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080")type Employee struct {  Id int `json:"id"`  FirstName string `json:"firstName"`  LastName string `json:"lastName"`}type Employees []Employeevar employees []Employeefunc init() {  employees = Employees  { Employee{Id: 1, FirstName: "Foo", LastName: "Bar"}, ...