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-put.go where we will define an additional route that supports the HTTP PUT method and a handler that either updates the employee details for the provided ID or adds an employee to the initial static array of employees; if the ID does not exist, marshal it to the JSON, and write it to an HTTP response stream, as follows:
package mainimport (  "encoding/json"  "log"  "net/http"  "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", ...

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