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Go Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Cookbook Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286836
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Torres Aaron Torres
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. I/O and File Systems FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line Tools 3. Data Conversion and Composition 4. Error Handling in Go 5. All about Databases and Storage 6. Web Clients and APIs 7. Microservices for Applications in Go 8. Testing 9. Parallelism and Concurrency 10. Distributed Systems 11. Reactive Programming and Data Streams 12. Serverless Programming 13. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks

Executing a database transaction interface

When working with connections to services such as database, it can be difficult to write tests. This is because it's difficult in Go to mock or duck-type things at runtime. Although I recommend using a storage interface when working with databases, it's still useful to mock a database transaction interface inside of this interface. The Creating storage interfaces for data portability recipe will cover storage interfaces; this one will focus on an interface to wrap database connections and transaction objects.

To show the use of such an interface, we'll rewrite the create and query files from the previous recipe to use our interface. The final output will be the same, but the create and query operations will all be performed in a transaction.

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