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Echo Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Echo Quick Start Guide Build lightweight and high-performance web apps with Echo

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139433
Length 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Utilizing the Request Context and Data Bindings

As the saying goes, "context is everything" and within the Echo framework, everything is accessible through the request context. Context implementation within Echo allows for the simplification of otherwise difficult information passing, as well as state transference through middleware and handlers. Within Echo, we can think of the echo.Context type as a representation of the request itself and reference its methods in order to retrieve any information about the incoming request.

Along with context, converting the serialized representation of a request payload data into a structure that is usable within an application is of paramount concern for a web application. Echo provides a very helpful capability that will handle the deserialization of the request payload into a structure for use within your handlers. This allows...

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