What you'll learn
In this project, you’ll follow along with our instructions and build a Web Service in Go utilizing only the net/http library. We'll start with a few existing functions and expose functionality through the HTTP protocol.
Table of contents
Setup
10m
- Setup your local environment for projects. We'll walk you through everything you need to know to setup your local instance and look around at the code you'll be using for this project.
Creating GET Handlers
15m
- By the end of this module, you’ll have created a handler for GET requests which returns a list of world cup winners in JSON format. This handler will also be able to filter requests based on query string data.
Creating POST Handlers
15m
- By the end of this module, you’ll have created a handler for POST requests which reads payload from user submitted requests and adds a new winner to the list of existing world cup winners.
Creating the Dispatch Handler
5m
- By the end of this module, you’ll have created a handler which will dispatch HTTP requests to their corresponding handlers, according to specific HTTP methods.
