Running in the background?

[James Bowers]

Hi, thanks for this library, it's extremely helpful.

This might be a more general Go question so I apologise in advance if it is, or a really silly question... how do I go about running this in-memory database on a webserver, so code executed from an inbound HTTP request can access it and run queries & insert data into an already established column database?

For context, I'm new to GoLang and come from an Elixir background, where we'd spin up a lightweight process to keep the ets (in-memory) cache alive, and then each HTTP request is handled by a separate lightweight process and would be allowed access to that ets memory space or send messages to the process with the in-memory db. Is there something similar in GoLang to achieve this? 🤔

Thanks so much 🙏🏼

[William Dreese]

Working off of https://gobyexample.com/http-servers, here's a super simple example of using column in a web service (not fully implemented) -

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

type MyService struct {
     requestCounter int
     dataILike *column.Collection
}

func NewService() *MyService {
    return &MyService{
        requestCounter: 0,
        dataILike: createCollection(), //some helper function for creating your cols & indexes
    }
}

func (s *MyService) hello(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
   s.requestCounter = s.requestCounter + 1

    s.dataILike.Query(func (txn *column.Txn) {
        // column txn stuff
    })
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "hello with data %v\n", someDataYouGotAbove)
}

func main() {

   s := NewService()

    http.HandleFunc("/hello", s.hello)

    http.ListenAndServe(":8090", nil)
}

[James Bowers]

Thanks!