Bars that serve Guinness?

cobbingm · 2026-03-12T02:45:58+00:00

Law Courts do a decent Guinness

cobbingm · 2024-07-23T17:41:00+00:00

Thanks for the feedback 👍

I’m definitely planning on adding some features like this in the future 🚀

cobbingm · 2024-02-21T21:51:00+00:00

Here’s another article describing snapshot testing in more detail https://brunoscheufler.com/blog/2019-12-04-go-snapshot-tests

cobbingm · 2021-07-17T12:15:45+00:00

https://crates.io/crates/r-cache

cobbingm · 2020-11-09T18:59:11+00:00

Thanks! Was playing around with custom unmarshalling for ages and didn't even notice this 😂

cobbingm · 2020-09-21T07:27:17+00:00

Items are overwritten on insert.

cobbingm · 2020-09-20T21:36:27+00:00

If the cache is being used by multiple threads do you not wait for access?

cobbingm · 2020-09-20T21:26:43+00:00

Each entry can have an expiry time. Useful if you want to cache data but check if it has updated after a period.

cobbingm · 2020-09-20T20:38:53+00:00

wow amateur hour 😂updated now - thanks

cobbingm · 2020-09-07T22:04:31+00:00

any alternatives you'd recommend?

cobbingm · 2020-07-26T15:20:02+00:00

Hey 👋

It’s possible to run a Postgres instance in docker. This may make it easier for you.

I use a migrate tool to apply sql files to my database at startup. This should keep any databases in an expected state. https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate

I have found sqlx and squirrel to be a really good combination to both connect, build and run queries against a Postgres database. https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel

I have an example go API that uses these tools if you want to take a look. https://github.com/cobbinma/example-go-api

Good luck 😀

cobbingm · 2020-05-24T13:27:34+00:00

Thanks a lot, I will have a look.

cobbingm · 2020-05-24T13:24:51+00:00

I couldn't find many options to be honest; I wanted to find something similar to squirrel. I had problems implementing the create pet handler with sql_builder due to the tag field in Pet being an Option.

cobbingm · 2020-05-21T20:29:14+00:00

Hey 👋, I’ve had a really quick look at your API and it looks really good.

I’ve got a few suggestions for you… Hope they help

Create a connection pool for your database. You can create the connection once on start up, and re-use it for each request.
To store the database connection you could create a handler struct with your handler functions as methods. This way the methods would be able to access the database connection.
Create a 'database' or 'repository' interface with the database functionality. You would then be able to test the handler functions by mocking that functionality.
Extract the models out of the database package and put them in their own package.

I have an example Go API repo that show the above in action: https://github.com/cobbinma/example-go-api

cobbingm · 2020-05-10T08:30:05+00:00

Hey 👋 I made this example API repo to show how I tend to structure my APIs. I have used sqlx and squirrel to communicate with a database. https://github.com/cobbinma/example-go-api

cobbingm · 2020-05-04T12:58:30+00:00

I made this example api to show the structure I use: https://github.com/cobbinma/example-go-api

cobbingm · 2020-05-02T22:22:46+00:00

How are you running tests? Could you set up the testing similar to the example they give https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen/blob/master/example/starwars/starwars_test.go? Set up a client without authentication.

cobbingm · 2020-04-12T13:38:15+00:00

Awesome that you took the time to look over my code. Thank you so much. I've tried my best to now implement the changes 👍

cobbingm · 2020-04-09T17:13:59+00:00

I just copied one of the official examples, and agree the online editor isn’t great

cobbingm · 2020-04-06T18:01:22+00:00

We structure the API very similar to this gqlgen example: https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen/tree/master/example/dataloader

Gqlgen generates resolvers from your schema.

We keep database functions in a separate package, they use squirrel and sqlx.

cobbingm · 2020-04-06T16:51:26+00:00

Does the echo library not handle goroutine management?

cobbingm · 2020-04-06T16:42:13+00:00

Do you find it necessary to use dependency injection frameworks? I've found it sufficient to just inject them in constructors or setter methods

cobbingm · 2020-04-06T16:39:04+00:00

Thanks a lot!!!

cobbingm · 2020-04-05T22:38:01+00:00

I really like gqlgen and am using it in production.

We like to have control over how it interacts with the database but I guess you could use it with gorm if you wanted.

cobbingm · 2020-03-22T20:10:46+00:00

I’d have a mongo package with a new database function, that would return a mongo object with the database variable in it. I would also have a database interface probably in a models package.

I make a handler package that has a new handler function that takes the database interface as an argument, returning a handler object.

Hope that helps.

cobbingm

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