Is there 'middleware' for Go http client?
You can use the Transport
parameter in HTTP client to that effect, with a composition pattern, using the fact that:
http.Client.Transport
defines the function that will handle all HTTP requests;http.Client.Transport
has interface typehttp.RoundTripper
, and can thus be replaced with your own implementation;
For example:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
)
// This type implements the http.RoundTripper interface
type LoggingRoundTripper struct {
Proxied http.RoundTripper
}
func (lrt LoggingRoundTripper) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (res *http.Response, e error) {
// Do "before sending requests" actions here.
fmt.Printf("Sending request to %v\n", req.URL)
// Send the request, get the response (or the error)
res, e = lrt.Proxied.RoundTrip(req)
// Handle the result.
if (e != nil) {
fmt.Printf("Error: %v", e)
} else {
fmt.Printf("Received %v response\n", res.Status)
}
return
}
func main() {
httpClient := &http.Client{
Transport: LoggingRoundTripper{http.DefaultTransport},
}
httpClient.Get("https://example.com/")
}
Feel free to alter names as you wish, I did not think on them for very long.