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Mastering Go – Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Go – Third Edition Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079310
Length 682 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Reflection and Interfaces 5. Go Packages and Functions 6. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 7. Go Concurrency 8. Building Web Services 9. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 10. Working with REST APIs 11. Code Testing and Profiling 12. Working with gRPC 13. Go Generics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index
Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector

Creating a RESTful client

Creating a RESTful client is much easier than programming a server mainly because you do not have to work with the database on the client side. The only thing that the client needs to do is send the right amount and kind of data to the server and receive back the server response. The RESTful client is going to be developed in ~/go/src/github.com/mactsouk/rest-cli—if you do not plan to make it available to the world, you do not need to create a separate GitHub repository for it. However, for you to be able to see the code of the client, I created a GitHub repository, which is https://github.com/mactsouk/rest-cli.

The supported first-level cobra commands are the following:

  • list: This command accesses the /getall endpoint and returns the list of users
  • time: This command is for visiting the /time endpoint
  • update: This command is for updating user records—the user ID cannot change
  • logged: This command lists all logged...
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