Handling Incoming HTTP Requests In GO

Go is a very powerful tool in the development of web services. In this article i will be covering how to handle HTTP Requests with Go.
Go has a powerful internal package http that provides HTTP client and server implementations.There are two ways to handle incoming HTTP Requests:

1. Using The HTTP Handle func Handle(pattern string, handler Handler)

Handle registers the handler for the given pattern in the DefaultServeMux.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

type helloHandler struct {
   message string
}

func (h *helloHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
   w.Write([]byte(h.message))
}

func main() {
    http.Handle("/hello-handler", &helloHandler{message: 'hello world')
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}

2 . Using HTTP HandleFunc func HandleFunc(pattern string, handler func(ResponseWriter, *Request))

HandleFunc registers the handler function for the given pattern in the DefaultServeMux.

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    hello := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        w.Write([]byte("Hello, world!, From a handleFunc"))
    }

    http.HandleFunc("/hello-handleFunc", hello)
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}

Personally i prefer the handle function as it is much easier to write