How to do it...

  1. Install the github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql and github.com/gorilla/mux packages using the go get command, as follows:
$ go get github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux
  1. Create read-record-mysql.go where we connect to the MySQL database, perform a SELECT query to get all the employees from the database, iterate over the records, copy its value into the struct, add all of them to a list, and write it to an HTTP response stream, as follows:
package mainimport (  "database/sql" "encoding/json"  "log"  "net/http"  "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"  "github.com/gorilla/mux")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080"  DRIVER_NAME = "mysql"  DATA_SOURCE_NAME = "root:password@/mydb")var db *sql.DBvar connectionError ...

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