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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go Develop elegant RESTful APIs with Golang for microservices and the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643577
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Naren Yellavula Naren Yellavula
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with REST API Development 2. Handling Routing for our REST Services FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Middleware and RPC 4. Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks 5. Working with MongoDB and Go to Create a REST API 6. Working with Protocol Buffers and gRPC 7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go 8. Building a REST API Client in Go 9. Asynchronous API Design 10. GraphQL and Go 11. Scaling our REST API Using Microservices 12. Containerizing REST Services for Deployment 13. Deploying REST Services on Amazon Web Services 14. Handling Authentication for our REST Services 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a CLI tool as an API client for the GitHub REST API

After looking at this example, we'll be able to easily access the GitHub API from our Go client. We can combine both of the techniques we've learned about in this chapter to come up with a command-line tool that consumes the GitHub API. Let's create a new command-line application that does the following:

  • Provides options to get repository details by username
  • Uploads a file to GitHub gist (text snippets) with a given description
  • Authenticates using a personal access token

We'll use the cli package and grequests to build this tool. You can re-implement the same example in cobra too.

Gist are snippets provided by GitHub that store text content. For more details, visit https://gist.github.com.

Create a directory called gitTool in this chapter's directory and add the main file to it, like so:

mkdir...
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