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Understanding [Link] interface —

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I was trying to understand the Handler interface in http standard library. In case
you don’t know interfaces in Go, you can read a very well explained blog article here
by Alex Edward.

If you look at the go http package and the source code here

type Handler interface {

ServeHTTP(ResponseWriter, *Request)
}

[Link] is an interface , which has a method ServeHTTP . Which means, any

type, having method ServeHTTP with ResponseWriter interface and a pointer to
Request can be treated a [Link] .

Let’s see this with example:

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type chandan struct {}

func (h *chandan) ServeHTTP(w [Link], r *[Link]) {

[Link]([]byte("This is my home page"))
}

How we can serve this page with following:

mux := [Link]()
[Link]("/", &chandan{}

Now, instead of writing this, we can have a simpler approach.

func chandan(w [Link], r *[Link]) {

[Link]([]byte("This is my home page"))
}

And now, this can be served with HandlerFunc adaptor.

mux := [Link]()
[Link]("/", [Link](chandan))

How how does this [Link](home) works?

Let’s try to understand this with an example:

package main

import "fmt"

type HandlerFunc func(int, int) int

func (f HandlerFunc) MyFunction(num1 int, num2 int) int {

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return f(num1, num2)

}

func home(x, y int) int {

return x + y
}

func main() {
handler := HandlerFunc(home)
result := [Link](10, 20) // Notice, MyFunction is callable on `hom
[Link](result)
}

If you notice, I defined a HandlerFunc function type and defined a method

MyFunction , which takes two integers as arguments and returns an integer.

Now I’m able to call the function defined on HandlerFunc with home . This is how
many of the features in Go standard libraries are implemented to leverage it’s
potential.
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Now back to our original question “How how does this [Link](home)

works?”

HandlerFunc function type has a method defined as ServeHTTP .

// The HandlerFunc type is an adapter to allow the use of

// ordinary functions as HTTP handlers. If f is a function
// with the appropriate signature, HandlerFunc(f) is a
// Handler that calls f.
type HandlerFunc func(ResponseWriter, *Request)

// ServeHTTP calls f(w, r).

func (f HandlerFunc) ServeHTTP(w ResponseWriter, r *Request) {
f(w, r)
}

Following our above example, we can clearly see, that the HandlerFunc adaptor adds
a method ServeHTTP on our original function chandan .

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mux := [Link]()
// [Link]("/", [Link](chandan)) // This can be simplified by foll
[Link]("/", home)

Chaining Handlers:

The ServeMux is a special type of Handler , which passes the request to second
handler. That’s why, we can pass mux as second argument to ListenAndServe .

func ListenAndServe(addr string, handler Handler) error

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