diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d3433ed2..804041f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,35 +13,122 @@
Gin is a web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster thanks to [httprouter](https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter). If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.
-**The key features of Gin are:**
-- Zero allocation router
-- Fast
-- Middleware support
-- Crash-free
-- JSON validation
-- Routes grouping
-- Error management
-- Rendering built-in
-- Extendable
+## Contents
-For more feature details, please see the [Gin website introduction](https://gin-gonic.com/docs/introduction/).
+- [Installation](#installation)
+- [Prerequisite](#prerequisite)
+- [Quick start](#quick-start)
+- [Benchmarks](#benchmarks)
+- [Gin v1.stable](#gin-v1-stable)
+- [Build with jsoniter](#build-with-jsoniter)
+- [API Examples](#api-examples)
+ - [Using GET,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE and OPTIONS](#using-get-post-put-patch-delete-and-options)
+ - [Parameters in path](#parameters-in-path)
+ - [Querystring parameters](#querystring-parameters)
+ - [Multipart/Urlencoded Form](#multiparturlencoded-form)
+ - [Another example: query + post form](#another-example-query--post-form)
+ - [Map as querystring or postform parameters](#map-as-querystring-or-postform-parameters)
+ - [Upload files](#upload-files)
+ - [Grouping routes](#grouping-routes)
+ - [Blank Gin without middleware by default](#blank-gin-without-middleware-by-default)
+ - [Using middleware](#using-middleware)
+ - [How to write log file](#how-to-write-log-file)
+ - [Custom Log Format](#custom-log-format)
+ - [Model binding and validation](#model-binding-and-validation)
+ - [Custom Validators](#custom-validators)
+ - [Only Bind Query String](#only-bind-query-string)
+ - [Bind Query String or Post Data](#bind-query-string-or-post-data)
+ - [Bind Uri](#bind-uri)
+ - [Bind HTML checkboxes](#bind-html-checkboxes)
+ - [Multipart/Urlencoded binding](#multiparturlencoded-binding)
+ - [XML, JSON, YAML and ProtoBuf rendering](#xml-json-yaml-and-protobuf-rendering)
+ - [JSONP rendering](#jsonp)
+ - [Serving static files](#serving-static-files)
+ - [Serving data from reader](#serving-data-from-reader)
+ - [HTML rendering](#html-rendering)
+ - [Multitemplate](#multitemplate)
+ - [Redirects](#redirects)
+ - [Custom Middleware](#custom-middleware)
+ - [Using BasicAuth() middleware](#using-basicauth-middleware)
+ - [Goroutines inside a middleware](#goroutines-inside-a-middleware)
+ - [Custom HTTP configuration](#custom-http-configuration)
+ - [Support Let's Encrypt](#support-lets-encrypt)
+ - [Run multiple service using Gin](#run-multiple-service-using-gin)
+ - [Graceful restart or stop](#graceful-restart-or-stop)
+ - [Build a single binary with templates](#build-a-single-binary-with-templates)
+ - [Bind form-data request with custom struct](#bind-form-data-request-with-custom-struct)
+ - [Try to bind body into different structs](#try-to-bind-body-into-different-structs)
+ - [http2 server push](#http2-server-push)
+ - [Define format for the log of routes](#define-format-for-the-log-of-routes)
+ - [Set and get a cookie](#set-and-get-a-cookie)
+- [Testing](#testing)
+- [Users](#users)
-## Getting started
+## Installation
-### Getting Gin
+To install Gin package, you need to install Go and set your Go workspace first.
-The first need [Go](https://golang.org/) installed (**version 1.6+ is required**), then you can use the below Go command to install Gin.
+1. Download and install it:
```sh
$ go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin
```
-For more installation guides such as vendor tool, please check out [Gin quickstart](https://gin-gonic.com/docs/quickstart/).
+2. Import it in your code:
-### Running Gin
+```go
+import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+```
-First you need to import Gin package for using Gin, one simplest example likes the follow `example.go`:
+3. (Optional) Import `net/http`. This is required for example if using constants such as `http.StatusOK`.
+
+```go
+import "net/http"
+```
+
+### Use a vendor tool like [Govendor](https://github.com/kardianos/govendor)
+
+1. `go get` govendor
+
+```sh
+$ go get github.com/kardianos/govendor
+```
+2. Create your project folder and `cd` inside
+
+```sh
+$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/myusername/project && cd "$_"
+```
+
+3. Vendor init your project and add gin
+
+```sh
+$ govendor init
+$ govendor fetch github.com/gin-gonic/gin@v1.3
+```
+
+4. Copy a starting template inside your project
+
+```sh
+$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gin-gonic/examples/master/basic/main.go > main.go
+```
+
+5. Run your project
+
+```sh
+$ go run main.go
+```
+
+## Prerequisite
+
+Now Gin requires Go 1.6 or later and Go 1.7 will be required soon.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```sh
+# assume the following codes in example.go file
+$ cat example.go
+```
```go
package main
@@ -59,8 +146,6 @@ func main() {
}
```
-And use the Go command to run the demo:
-
```
# run example.go and visit 0.0.0.0:8080/ping on browser
$ go run example.go
@@ -68,7 +153,9 @@ $ go run example.go
## Benchmarks
-Please see all benchmarks details from [Gin website](https://gin-gonic.com/docs/benchmarks/).
+Gin uses a custom version of [HttpRouter](https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter)
+
+[See all benchmarks](/BENCHMARKS.md)
Benchmark name | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4)
--------------------------------------------|-----------:|------------:|-----------:|---------:
@@ -105,32 +192,1879 @@ BenchmarkVulcan_GithubAll | 5000 | 394253 | 19894
- (3): Heap Memory (B/op), lower is better
- (4): Average Allocations per Repetition (allocs/op), lower is better
-## Middlewares
+## Gin v1. stable
-You can find many useful Gin middlewares at [gin-contrib](https://github.com/gin-contrib).
+- [x] Zero allocation router.
+- [x] Still the fastest http router and framework. From routing to writing.
+- [x] Complete suite of unit tests
+- [x] Battle tested
+- [x] API frozen, new releases will not break your code.
-## Documentation
+## Build with [jsoniter](https://github.com/json-iterator/go)
-See [API documentation and descriptions](https://godoc.org/github.com/gin-gonic/gin) for package.
+Gin uses `encoding/json` as default json package but you can change to [jsoniter](https://github.com/json-iterator/go) by build from other tags.
-All documentation is available on the Gin website.
+```sh
+$ go build -tags=jsoniter .
+```
-- [English](https://gin-gonic.com/docs/)
-- [简体中文](https://gin-gonic.com/zh-cn/docs/)
-- [繁體中文](https://gin-gonic.com/zh-tw/docs/)
-- [日本語](https://gin-gonic.com/ja/docs/)
+## API Examples
-## Examples
+You can find a number of ready-to-run examples at [Gin examples repository](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples).
-A number of ready-to-run examples demonstrating various use cases of Gin on the [Gin examples](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples) repository.
+### Using GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and OPTIONS
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ // Creates a gin router with default middleware:
+ // logger and recovery (crash-free) middleware
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.GET("/someGet", getting)
+ router.POST("/somePost", posting)
+ router.PUT("/somePut", putting)
+ router.DELETE("/someDelete", deleting)
+ router.PATCH("/somePatch", patching)
+ router.HEAD("/someHead", head)
+ router.OPTIONS("/someOptions", options)
+
+ // By default it serves on :8080 unless a
+ // PORT environment variable was defined.
+ router.Run()
+ // router.Run(":3000") for a hard coded port
+}
+```
+
+### Parameters in path
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ // This handler will match /user/john but will not match /user/ or /user
+ router.GET("/user/:name", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ name := c.Param("name")
+ c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello %s", name)
+ })
+
+ // However, this one will match /user/john/ and also /user/john/send
+ // If no other routers match /user/john, it will redirect to /user/john/
+ router.GET("/user/:name/*action", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ name := c.Param("name")
+ action := c.Param("action")
+ message := name + " is " + action
+ c.String(http.StatusOK, message)
+ })
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Querystring parameters
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ // Query string parameters are parsed using the existing underlying request object.
+ // The request responds to a url matching: /welcome?firstname=Jane&lastname=Doe
+ router.GET("/welcome", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ firstname := c.DefaultQuery("firstname", "Guest")
+ lastname := c.Query("lastname") // shortcut for c.Request.URL.Query().Get("lastname")
+
+ c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello %s %s", firstname, lastname)
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Multipart/Urlencoded Form
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.POST("/form_post", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ message := c.PostForm("message")
+ nick := c.DefaultPostForm("nick", "anonymous")
+
+ c.JSON(200, gin.H{
+ "status": "posted",
+ "message": message,
+ "nick": nick,
+ })
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Another example: query + post form
+
+```
+POST /post?id=1234&page=1 HTTP/1.1
+Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
+
+name=manu&message=this_is_great
+```
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) {
+
+ id := c.Query("id")
+ page := c.DefaultQuery("page", "0")
+ name := c.PostForm("name")
+ message := c.PostForm("message")
+
+ fmt.Printf("id: %s; page: %s; name: %s; message: %s", id, page, name, message)
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+```
+id: 1234; page: 1; name: manu; message: this_is_great
+```
+
+### Map as querystring or postform parameters
+
+```
+POST /post?ids[a]=1234&ids[b]=hello HTTP/1.1
+Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
+
+names[first]=thinkerou&names[second]=tianou
+```
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) {
+
+ ids := c.QueryMap("ids")
+ names := c.PostFormMap("names")
+
+ fmt.Printf("ids: %v; names: %v", ids, names)
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+```
+ids: map[b:hello a:1234], names: map[second:tianou first:thinkerou]
+```
+
+### Upload files
+
+#### Single file
+
+References issue [#774](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/774) and detail [example code](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples/tree/master/upload-file/single).
+
+`file.Filename` **SHOULD NOT** be trusted. See [`Content-Disposition` on MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Disposition#Directives) and [#1693](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/1693)
+
+> The filename is always optional and must not be used blindly by the application: path information should be stripped, and conversion to the server file system rules should be done.
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+ // Set a lower memory limit for multipart forms (default is 32 MiB)
+ // router.MaxMultipartMemory = 8 << 20 // 8 MiB
+ router.POST("/upload", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ // single file
+ file, _ := c.FormFile("file")
+ log.Println(file.Filename)
+
+ // Upload the file to specific dst.
+ // c.SaveUploadedFile(file, dst)
+
+ c.String(http.StatusOK, fmt.Sprintf("'%s' uploaded!", file.Filename))
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+How to `curl`:
+
+```bash
+curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/upload \
+ -F "file=@/Users/appleboy/test.zip" \
+ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
+```
+
+#### Multiple files
+
+See the detail [example code](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples/tree/master/upload-file/multiple).
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+ // Set a lower memory limit for multipart forms (default is 32 MiB)
+ // router.MaxMultipartMemory = 8 << 20 // 8 MiB
+ router.POST("/upload", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ // Multipart form
+ form, _ := c.MultipartForm()
+ files := form.File["upload[]"]
+
+ for _, file := range files {
+ log.Println(file.Filename)
+
+ // Upload the file to specific dst.
+ // c.SaveUploadedFile(file, dst)
+ }
+ c.String(http.StatusOK, fmt.Sprintf("%d files uploaded!", len(files)))
+ })
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+How to `curl`:
+
+```bash
+curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/upload \
+ -F "upload[]=@/Users/appleboy/test1.zip" \
+ -F "upload[]=@/Users/appleboy/test2.zip" \
+ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
+```
+
+### Grouping routes
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ // Simple group: v1
+ v1 := router.Group("/v1")
+ {
+ v1.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
+ v1.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
+ v1.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
+ }
+
+ // Simple group: v2
+ v2 := router.Group("/v2")
+ {
+ v2.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
+ v2.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
+ v2.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
+ }
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Blank Gin without middleware by default
+
+Use
+
+```go
+r := gin.New()
+```
+
+instead of
+
+```go
+// Default With the Logger and Recovery middleware already attached
+r := gin.Default()
+```
+
+
+### Using middleware
+```go
+func main() {
+ // Creates a router without any middleware by default
+ r := gin.New()
+
+ // Global middleware
+ // Logger middleware will write the logs to gin.DefaultWriter even if you set with GIN_MODE=release.
+ // By default gin.DefaultWriter = os.Stdout
+ r.Use(gin.Logger())
+
+ // Recovery middleware recovers from any panics and writes a 500 if there was one.
+ r.Use(gin.Recovery())
+
+ // Per route middleware, you can add as many as you desire.
+ r.GET("/benchmark", MyBenchLogger(), benchEndpoint)
+
+ // Authorization group
+ // authorized := r.Group("/", AuthRequired())
+ // exactly the same as:
+ authorized := r.Group("/")
+ // per group middleware! in this case we use the custom created
+ // AuthRequired() middleware just in the "authorized" group.
+ authorized.Use(AuthRequired())
+ {
+ authorized.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
+ authorized.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
+ authorized.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
+
+ // nested group
+ testing := authorized.Group("testing")
+ testing.GET("/analytics", analyticsEndpoint)
+ }
+
+ // Listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080
+ r.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### How to write log file
+```go
+func main() {
+ // Disable Console Color, you don't need console color when writing the logs to file.
+ gin.DisableConsoleColor()
+
+ // Logging to a file.
+ f, _ := os.Create("gin.log")
+ gin.DefaultWriter = io.MultiWriter(f)
+
+ // Use the following code if you need to write the logs to file and console at the same time.
+ // gin.DefaultWriter = io.MultiWriter(f, os.Stdout)
+
+ router := gin.Default()
+ router.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ c.String(200, "pong")
+ })
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Custom Log Format
+```go
+func main() {
+ router := gin.New()
+
+ // LoggerWithFormatter middleware will write the logs to gin.DefaultWriter
+ // By default gin.DefaultWriter = os.Stdout
+ router.Use(gin.LoggerWithFormatter(func(param gin.LogFormatterParams) string {
+
+ // your custom format
+ return fmt.Sprintf("%s - [%s] \"%s %s %s %d %s \"%s\" %s\"\n",
+ param.ClientIP,
+ param.TimeStamp.Format(time.RFC1123),
+ param.Method,
+ param.Path,
+ param.Request.Proto,
+ param.StatusCode,
+ param.Latency,
+ param.Request.UserAgent(),
+ param.ErrorMessage,
+ )
+ }))
+ router.Use(gin.Recovery())
+
+ router.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ c.String(200, "pong")
+ })
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+**Sample Output**
+```
+::1 - [Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:04:38 JST] "GET /ping HTTP/1.1 200 122.767µs "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.80 Safari/537.36" "
+```
+
+### Controlling Log output coloring
+
+By default, logs output on console should be colorized depending on the detected TTY.
+
+Never colorize logs:
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ // Disable log's color
+ gin.DisableConsoleColor()
+
+ // Creates a gin router with default middleware:
+ // logger and recovery (crash-free) middleware
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ c.String(200, "pong")
+ })
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+Always colorize logs:
+
+```go
+func main() {
+ // Force log's color
+ gin.ForceConsoleColor()
+
+ // Creates a gin router with default middleware:
+ // logger and recovery (crash-free) middleware
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ router.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ c.String(200, "pong")
+ })
+
+ router.Run(":8080")
+}
+```
+
+### Model binding and validation
+
+To bind a request body into a type, use model binding. We currently support binding of JSON, XML, YAML and standard form values (foo=bar&boo=baz).
+
+Gin uses [**go-playground/validator.v8**](https://github.com/go-playground/validator) for validation. Check the full docs on tags usage [here](http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v8#hdr-Baked_In_Validators_and_Tags).
+
+Note that you need to set the corresponding binding tag on all fields you want to bind. For example, when binding from JSON, set `json:"fieldname"`.
+
+Also, Gin provides two sets of methods for binding:
+- **Type** - Must bind
+ - **Methods** - `Bind`, `BindJSON`, `BindXML`, `BindQuery`, `BindYAML`
+ - **Behavior** - These methods use `MustBindWith` under the hood. If there is a binding error, the request is aborted with `c.AbortWithError(400, err).SetType(ErrorTypeBind)`. This sets the response status code to 400 and the `Content-Type` header is set to `text/plain; charset=utf-8`. Note that if you try to set the response code after this, it will result in a warning `[GIN-debug] [WARNING] Headers were already written. Wanted to override status code 400 with 422`. If you wish to have greater control over the behavior, consider using the `ShouldBind` equivalent method.
+- **Type** - Should bind
+ - **Methods** - `ShouldBind`, `ShouldBindJSON`, `ShouldBindXML`, `ShouldBindQuery`, `ShouldBindYAML`
+ - **Behavior** - These methods use `ShouldBindWith` under the hood. If there is a binding error, the error is returned and it is the developer's responsibility to handle the request and error appropriately.
+
+When using the Bind-method, Gin tries to infer the binder depending on the Content-Type header. If you are sure what you are binding, you can use `MustBindWith` or `ShouldBindWith`.
+
+You can also specify that specific fields are required. If a field is decorated with `binding:"required"` and has a empty value when binding, an error will be returned.
+
+```go
+// Binding from JSON
+type Login struct {
+ User string `form:"user" json:"user" xml:"user" binding:"required"`
+ Password string `form:"password" json:"password" xml:"password" binding:"required"`
+}
+
+func main() {
+ router := gin.Default()
+
+ // Example for binding JSON ({"user": "manu", "password": "123"})
+ router.POST("/loginJSON", func(c *gin.Context) {
+ var json Login
+ if err := c.ShouldBindJSON(&json); err != nil {
+ c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": err.Error()})
+ return
+ }
+
+ if json.User != "manu" || json.Password != "123" {
+ c.JSON(http.StatusUnauthorized, gin.H{"status": "unauthorized"})
+ return
+ }
+
+ c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"status": "you are logged in"})
+ })
+
+ // Example for binding XML (
+ //
+ //
Using posts/index.tmpl
+ +{{ end }} +``` + +templates/users/index.tmpl + +```html +{{ define "users/index.tmpl" }} +Using users/index.tmpl
+ +{{ end }} +``` + +#### Custom Template renderer + +You can also use your own html template render + +```go +import "html/template" + +func main() { + router := gin.Default() + html := template.Must(template.ParseFiles("file1", "file2")) + router.SetHTMLTemplate(html) + router.Run(":8080") +} +``` + +#### Custom Delimiters + +You may use custom delims + +```go + r := gin.Default() + r.Delims("{[{", "}]}") + r.LoadHTMLGlob("/path/to/templates") +``` + +#### Custom Template Funcs + +See the detail [example code](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples/tree/master/template). + +main.go + +```go +import ( + "fmt" + "html/template" + "net/http" + "time" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" +) + +func formatAsDate(t time.Time) string { + year, month, day := t.Date() + return fmt.Sprintf("%d%02d/%02d", year, month, day) +} + +func main() { + router := gin.Default() + router.Delims("{[{", "}]}") + router.SetFuncMap(template.FuncMap{ + "formatAsDate": formatAsDate, + }) + router.LoadHTMLFiles("./testdata/template/raw.tmpl") + + router.GET("/raw", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "raw.tmpl", map[string]interface{}{ + "now": time.Date(2017, 07, 01, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC), + }) + }) + + router.Run(":8080") +} + +``` + +raw.tmpl + +```html +Date: {[{.now | formatAsDate}]} +``` + +Result: +``` +Date: 2017/07/01 +``` + +### Multitemplate + +Gin allow by default use only one html.Template. Check [a multitemplate render](https://github.com/gin-contrib/multitemplate) for using features like go 1.6 `block template`. + +### Redirects + +Issuing a HTTP redirect is easy. Both internal and external locations are supported. + +```go +r.GET("/test", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.Redirect(http.StatusMovedPermanently, "http://www.google.com/") +}) +``` + + +Issuing a Router redirect, use `HandleContext` like below. + +``` go +r.GET("/test", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.Request.URL.Path = "/test2" + r.HandleContext(c) +}) +r.GET("/test2", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.JSON(200, gin.H{"hello": "world"}) +}) +``` + + +### Custom Middleware + +```go +func Logger() gin.HandlerFunc { + return func(c *gin.Context) { + t := time.Now() + + // Set example variable + c.Set("example", "12345") + + // before request + + c.Next() + + // after request + latency := time.Since(t) + log.Print(latency) + + // access the status we are sending + status := c.Writer.Status() + log.Println(status) + } +} + +func main() { + r := gin.New() + r.Use(Logger()) + + r.GET("/test", func(c *gin.Context) { + example := c.MustGet("example").(string) + + // it would print: "12345" + log.Println(example) + }) + + // Listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080 + r.Run(":8080") +} +``` + +### Using BasicAuth() middleware + +```go +// simulate some private data +var secrets = gin.H{ + "foo": gin.H{"email": "foo@bar.com", "phone": "123433"}, + "austin": gin.H{"email": "austin@example.com", "phone": "666"}, + "lena": gin.H{"email": "lena@guapa.com", "phone": "523443"}, +} + +func main() { + r := gin.Default() + + // Group using gin.BasicAuth() middleware + // gin.Accounts is a shortcut for map[string]string + authorized := r.Group("/admin", gin.BasicAuth(gin.Accounts{ + "foo": "bar", + "austin": "1234", + "lena": "hello2", + "manu": "4321", + })) + + // /admin/secrets endpoint + // hit "localhost:8080/admin/secrets + authorized.GET("/secrets", func(c *gin.Context) { + // get user, it was set by the BasicAuth middleware + user := c.MustGet(gin.AuthUserKey).(string) + if secret, ok := secrets[user]; ok { + c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"user": user, "secret": secret}) + } else { + c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"user": user, "secret": "NO SECRET :("}) + } + }) + + // Listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080 + r.Run(":8080") +} +``` + +### Goroutines inside a middleware + +When starting new Goroutines inside a middleware or handler, you **SHOULD NOT** use the original context inside it, you have to use a read-only copy. + +```go +func main() { + r := gin.Default() + + r.GET("/long_async", func(c *gin.Context) { + // create copy to be used inside the goroutine + cCp := c.Copy() + go func() { + // simulate a long task with time.Sleep(). 5 seconds + time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) + + // note that you are using the copied context "cCp", IMPORTANT + log.Println("Done! in path " + cCp.Request.URL.Path) + }() + }) + + r.GET("/long_sync", func(c *gin.Context) { + // simulate a long task with time.Sleep(). 5 seconds + time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) + + // since we are NOT using a goroutine, we do not have to copy the context + log.Println("Done! in path " + c.Request.URL.Path) + }) + + // Listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080 + r.Run(":8080") +} +``` + +### Custom HTTP configuration + +Use `http.ListenAndServe()` directly, like this: + +```go +func main() { + router := gin.Default() + http.ListenAndServe(":8080", router) +} +``` +or + +```go +func main() { + router := gin.Default() + + s := &http.Server{ + Addr: ":8080", + Handler: router, + ReadTimeout: 10 * time.Second, + WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second, + MaxHeaderBytes: 1 << 20, + } + s.ListenAndServe() +} +``` + +### Support Let's Encrypt + +example for 1-line LetsEncrypt HTTPS servers. + +```go +package main + +import ( + "log" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/autotls" + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" +) + +func main() { + r := gin.Default() + + // Ping handler + r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.String(200, "pong") + }) + + log.Fatal(autotls.Run(r, "example1.com", "example2.com")) +} +``` + +example for custom autocert manager. + +```go +package main + +import ( + "log" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/autotls" + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" + "golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert" +) + +func main() { + r := gin.Default() + + // Ping handler + r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.String(200, "pong") + }) + + m := autocert.Manager{ + Prompt: autocert.AcceptTOS, + HostPolicy: autocert.HostWhitelist("example1.com", "example2.com"), + Cache: autocert.DirCache("/var/www/.cache"), + } + + log.Fatal(autotls.RunWithManager(r, &m)) +} +``` + +### Run multiple service using Gin + +See the [question](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/346) and try the following example: + +```go +package main + +import ( + "log" + "net/http" + "time" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" + "golang.org/x/sync/errgroup" +) + +var ( + g errgroup.Group +) + +func router01() http.Handler { + e := gin.New() + e.Use(gin.Recovery()) + e.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.JSON( + http.StatusOK, + gin.H{ + "code": http.StatusOK, + "error": "Welcome server 01", + }, + ) + }) + + return e +} + +func router02() http.Handler { + e := gin.New() + e.Use(gin.Recovery()) + e.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.JSON( + http.StatusOK, + gin.H{ + "code": http.StatusOK, + "error": "Welcome server 02", + }, + ) + }) + + return e +} + +func main() { + server01 := &http.Server{ + Addr: ":8080", + Handler: router01(), + ReadTimeout: 5 * time.Second, + WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second, + } + + server02 := &http.Server{ + Addr: ":8081", + Handler: router02(), + ReadTimeout: 5 * time.Second, + WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second, + } + + g.Go(func() error { + return server01.ListenAndServe() + }) + + g.Go(func() error { + return server02.ListenAndServe() + }) + + if err := g.Wait(); err != nil { + log.Fatal(err) + } +} +``` + +### Graceful restart or stop + +Do you want to graceful restart or stop your web server? +There are some ways this can be done. + +We can use [fvbock/endless](https://github.com/fvbock/endless) to replace the default `ListenAndServe`. Refer issue [#296](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/296) for more details. + +```go +router := gin.Default() +router.GET("/", handler) +// [...] +endless.ListenAndServe(":4242", router) +``` + +An alternative to endless: + +* [manners](https://github.com/braintree/manners): A polite Go HTTP server that shuts down gracefully. +* [graceful](https://github.com/tylerb/graceful): Graceful is a Go package enabling graceful shutdown of an http.Handler server. +* [grace](https://github.com/facebookgo/grace): Graceful restart & zero downtime deploy for Go servers. + +If you are using Go 1.8, you may not need to use this library! Consider using http.Server's built-in [Shutdown()](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Server.Shutdown) method for graceful shutdowns. See the full [graceful-shutdown](https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples/tree/master/graceful-shutdown) example with gin. + +```go +// +build go1.8 + +package main + +import ( + "context" + "log" + "net/http" + "os" + "os/signal" + "syscall" + "time" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" +) + +func main() { + router := gin.Default() + router.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) { + time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) + c.String(http.StatusOK, "Welcome Gin Server") + }) + + srv := &http.Server{ + Addr: ":8080", + Handler: router, + } + + go func() { + // service connections + if err := srv.ListenAndServe(); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed { + log.Fatalf("listen: %s\n", err) + } + }() + + // Wait for interrupt signal to gracefully shutdown the server with + // a timeout of 5 seconds. + quit := make(chan os.Signal) + // kill (no param) default send syscanll.SIGTERM + // kill -2 is syscall.SIGINT + // kill -9 is syscall. SIGKILL but can"t be catch, so don't need add it + signal.Notify(quit, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM) + <-quit + log.Println("Shutdown Server ...") + + ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second) + defer cancel() + if err := srv.Shutdown(ctx); err != nil { + log.Fatal("Server Shutdown:", err) + } + // catching ctx.Done(). timeout of 5 seconds. + select { + case <-ctx.Done(): + log.Println("timeout of 5 seconds.") + } + log.Println("Server exiting") +} +``` + +### Build a single binary with templates + +You can build a server into a single binary containing templates by using [go-assets][]. + +[go-assets]: https://github.com/jessevdk/go-assets + +```go +func main() { + r := gin.New() + + t, err := loadTemplate() + if err != nil { + panic(err) + } + r.SetHTMLTemplate(t) + + r.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) { + c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "/html/index.tmpl",nil) + }) + r.Run(":8080") +} + +// loadTemplate loads templates embedded by go-assets-builder +func loadTemplate() (*template.Template, error) { + t := template.New("") + for name, file := range Assets.Files { + if file.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(name, ".tmpl") { + continue + } + h, err := ioutil.ReadAll(file) + if err != nil { + return nil, err + } + t, err = t.New(name).Parse(string(h)) + if err != nil { + return nil, err + } + } + return t, nil +} +``` + +See a complete example in the `https://github.com/gin-gonic/examples/tree/master/assets-in-binary` directory. + +### Bind form-data request with custom struct + +The follow example using custom struct: + +```go +type StructA struct { + FieldA string `form:"field_a"` +} + +type StructB struct { + NestedStruct StructA + FieldB string `form:"field_b"` +} + +type StructC struct { + NestedStructPointer *StructA + FieldC string `form:"field_c"` +} + +type StructD struct { + NestedAnonyStruct struct { + FieldX string `form:"field_x"` + } + FieldD string `form:"field_d"` +} + +func GetDataB(c *gin.Context) { + var b StructB + c.Bind(&b) + c.JSON(200, gin.H{ + "a": b.NestedStruct, + "b": b.FieldB, + }) +} + +func GetDataC(c *gin.Context) { + var b StructC + c.Bind(&b) + c.JSON(200, gin.H{ + "a": b.NestedStructPointer, + "c": b.FieldC, + }) +} + +func GetDataD(c *gin.Context) { + var b StructD + c.Bind(&b) + c.JSON(200, gin.H{ + "x": b.NestedAnonyStruct, + "d": b.FieldD, + }) +} + +func main() { + r := gin.Default() + r.GET("/getb", GetDataB) + r.GET("/getc", GetDataC) + r.GET("/getd", GetDataD) + + r.Run() +} +``` + +Using the command `curl` command result: + +``` +$ curl "http://localhost:8080/getb?field_a=hello&field_b=world" +{"a":{"FieldA":"hello"},"b":"world"} +$ curl "http://localhost:8080/getc?field_a=hello&field_c=world" +{"a":{"FieldA":"hello"},"c":"world"} +$ curl "http://localhost:8080/getd?field_x=hello&field_d=world" +{"d":"world","x":{"FieldX":"hello"}} +``` + +### Try to bind body into different structs + +The normal methods for binding request body consumes `c.Request.Body` and they +cannot be called multiple times. + +```go +type formA struct { + Foo string `json:"foo" xml:"foo" binding:"required"` +} + +type formB struct { + Bar string `json:"bar" xml:"bar" binding:"required"` +} + +func SomeHandler(c *gin.Context) { + objA := formA{} + objB := formB{} + // This c.ShouldBind consumes c.Request.Body and it cannot be reused. + if errA := c.ShouldBind(&objA); errA == nil { + c.String(http.StatusOK, `the body should be formA`) + // Always an error is occurred by this because c.Request.Body is EOF now. + } else if errB := c.ShouldBind(&objB); errB == nil { + c.String(http.StatusOK, `the body should be formB`) + } else { + ... + } +} +``` + +For this, you can use `c.ShouldBindBodyWith`. + +```go +func SomeHandler(c *gin.Context) { + objA := formA{} + objB := formB{} + // This reads c.Request.Body and stores the result into the context. + if errA := c.ShouldBindBodyWith(&objA, binding.JSON); errA == nil { + c.String(http.StatusOK, `the body should be formA`) + // At this time, it reuses body stored in the context. + } else if errB := c.ShouldBindBodyWith(&objB, binding.JSON); errB == nil { + c.String(http.StatusOK, `the body should be formB JSON`) + // And it can accepts other formats + } else if errB2 := c.ShouldBindBodyWith(&objB, binding.XML); errB2 == nil { + c.String(http.StatusOK, `the body should be formB XML`) + } else { + ... + } +} +``` + +* `c.ShouldBindBodyWith` stores body into the context before binding. This has +a slight impact to performance, so you should not use this method if you are +enough to call binding at once. +* This feature is only needed for some formats -- `JSON`, `XML`, `MsgPack`, +`ProtoBuf`. For other formats, `Query`, `Form`, `FormPost`, `FormMultipart`, +can be called by `c.ShouldBind()` multiple times without any damage to +performance (See [#1341](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/1341)). + +### http2 server push + +http.Pusher is supported only **go1.8+**. See the [golang blog](https://blog.golang.org/h2push) for detail information. + +```go +package main + +import ( + "html/template" + "log" + + "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" +) + +var html = template.Must(template.New("https").Parse(` + + +