evillemez / grotto

Experiments with golang and otto

This repo does nothing useful. These are just first experiments with both otto and golang.

TODO:

• Next step, use Negroni to add some middleware like logging

  • https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni

• serve some static templates

• serve some static assets (css)

• create some structs for models

• persist models to db:

  • mongo w/ mgo: https://github.com/go-mgo/mgo/tree/v2
  • postgres w/ ...
    • https://github.com/go-xorm/xorm
    • https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm
    • https://github.com/go-gorp/gorp

• expose data manipulation via api

  • GETs
    • pull data from db, resulting in struct instances
    • convert struct to map: https://github.com/fatih/structs
    • transform/sanitize map
    • marshall map into json
  • PUTs
    • unmarshall raw json into map
    • transform/sanitize map
    • convert map to struct https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure
    • persist structs to db

• validation on maps maybe, or structs: https://github.com/asaskevich/govalidator

• write unit tests w/ help from: https://github.com/stretchr/testify

• integration tests w/ help from: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/httptest/

• contemplate partial model updates & partial views

  • write a map transformer library, end result would be similar to JMS Serializer Groups, but applying transformation on intermediary map representation, not structs directly
  • call it mapblaster? :) Or more generic: mapview
  • theoretical example usage (don't know how possible it is yet):
    • mutate map by whitelisting/blacklisting object paths
      • transformedMap, err := maps.IncludePaths(someMap, {"some.path","another.path"})
      • transformedMap, err := maps.ExcludePaths(someMap, {"some.path","another.path"})
    • create and apply configurable views to a map
      • creating a view
        • var ApiView maps.MapView = maps.NewMapView(). SetExcludedPaths({"some.path"}). SetPathHandler("some.path", handlers.MyCustomPathHandler)
        • var SearchIndexView = maps.NewMapView(). Include(ApiView). AddRequiredPath("id"). AddExcludedPath("different.nested.path"). SetPathHandler("another.path", handlers.SomeHandler)
      • using a view
        • transformedMap, err := maps.ApplyMapView(someMap, ApiView)