Executing requests to the location microservice

Previously, we successfully ran the recently introduced location microservice using Compose. However, the application will be unusable if we do not use it along with the Task Manager. By integrating the Task Manager with the location service, the user should be able to specify a location when creating a task. If the user also retrieves one of the existing tasks, locations near the task’s location shall be presented.

The Task Manager would have to communicate with the location service. For this reason, we shall create a service inside the Task Manager that will issue requests to the location microservice. The same models we used on the location service will also be used for this module.

The location service module in the Task Manager application can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/A-Developer-s-Essential-Guide-to-Docker-Compose/blob/main/Chapter5/task-manager/location/location_service.go.

Since the...