Echo v2

Don't forget to try the upcoming v3 tracked here

Fast and unfancy HTTP server framework for Go (Golang). Up to 10x faster than the rest.

Feature Overview

• Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes
• Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs
• Run with standard HTTP server or FastHTTP server
• Group APIs
• Extensible middleware framework
• Define middleware at root, group or route level
• Data binding for JSON, XML and form payload
• Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses
• Centralized HTTP error handling
• Template rendering with any template engine
• Define your format for the logger
• Highly customizable

Performance

• Environment:
  • Go 1.6
  • wrk 4.0.0
  • 2 GB, 2 Core (DigitalOcean)
• Test Suite: https://github.com/vishr/web-framework-benchmark
• Date: 4/4/2016

Quick Start

Installation

Echo is developed and tested using Go 1.6.x and 1.7.x

$ go get -u github.com/labstack/echo

Ideally, you should rely on a package manager like glide or govendor to use a specific version of Echo.

Hello, World!

Create server.go

package main

import (
	"net/http"
	"github.com/labstack/echo"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/engine/standard"
)

func main() {
	e := echo.New()
	e.GET("/", func(c echo.Context) error {
		return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
	})
	e.Run(standard.New(":1323"))
}

Start server

$ go run server.go

Browse to http://localhost:1323 and you should see Hello, World! on the page.

Routing

e.POST("/users", saveUser)
e.GET("/users/:id", getUser)
e.PUT("/users/:id", updateUser)
e.DELETE("/users/:id", deleteUser)

Path Parameters

// e.GET("/users/:id", getUser)
func getUser(c echo.Context) error {
	// User ID from path `users/:id`
	id := c.Param("id")
	return c.String(http.StatusOK, id)
}

Browse to http://localhost:1323/users/Joe and you should see 'Joe' on the page.

Query Parameters

/show?team=x-men&member=wolverine

//e.GET("/show", show)
func show(c echo.Context) error {
	// Get team and member from the query string
	team := c.QueryParam("team")
	member := c.QueryParam("member")
	return c.String(http.StatusOK, "team:" + team + ", member:" + member)
}

Browse to http://localhost:1323/show?team=x-men&member=wolverine and you should see 'team:x-men, member:wolverine' on the page.

Form application/x-www-form-urlencoded

POST /save

name	value
name	Joe Smith
email	joe@labstack.com

// e.POST("/save", save)
func save(c echo.Context) error {
	// Get name and email
	name := c.FormValue("name")
	email := c.FormValue("email")
	return c.String(http.StatusOK, "name:" + name + ", email:" + email)
}

Run the following command.

$ curl -F "name=Joe Smith" -F "email=joe@labstack.com" http://localhost:1323/save
// => name:Joe Smith, email:joe@labstack.com

Form multipart/form-data

POST /save

name	value
name	Joe Smith
avatar	avatar

// e.POST("/save", save)
func save(c echo.Context) error {
	// Get name
	name := c.FormValue("name")
	// Get avatar
	avatar, err := c.FormFile("avatar")
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Source
	src, err := avatar.Open()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer src.Close()

	// Destination
	dst, err := os.Create(avatar.Filename)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer dst.Close()

	// Copy
	if _, err = io.Copy(dst, src); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "<b>Thank you! " + name + "</b>")
}

Run the following command.

$ curl -F "name=Joe Smith" -F "avatar=@/path/to/your/avatar.png" http://localhost:1323/save
// => <b>Thank you! Joe Smith</b>

For checking uploaded image, run the following command.

cd <project directory>
ls avatar.png
// => avatar.png

Handling Request

• Bind JSON or XML or form payload into Go struct based on Content-Type request header.
• Render response as JSON or XML with status code.

type User struct {
	Name  string `json:"name" xml:"name" form:"name"`
	Email string `json:"email" xml:"email" form:"email"`
}

e.POST("/users", func(c echo.Context) error {
	u := new(User)
	if err := c.Bind(u); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return c.JSON(http.StatusCreated, u)
	// or
	// return c.XML(http.StatusCreated, u)
})

Static Content

Server any file from static directory for path /static/*.

e.Static("/static", "static")

Learn More

Template Rendering

Middleware

// Root level middleware
e.Use(middleware.Logger())
e.Use(middleware.Recover())

// Group level middleware
g := e.Group("/admin")
g.Use(middleware.BasicAuth(func(username, password string) bool {
	if username == "joe" && password == "secret" {
		return true
	}
	return false
}))

// Route level middleware
track := func(next echo.HandlerFunc) echo.HandlerFunc {
	return func(c echo.Context) error {
		println("request to /users")
		return next(c)
	}
}
e.GET("/users", func(c echo.Context) error {
	return c.String(http.StatusOK, "/users")
}, track)

Built-in Middleware

Middleware	Description
BodyLimit	Limit request body
Logger	Log HTTP requests
Recover	Recover from panics
Gzip	Send gzip HTTP response
BasicAuth	HTTP basic authentication
JWTAuth	JWT authentication
Secure	Protection against attacks
CORS	Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
CSRF	Cross-Site Request Forgery
Static	Serve static files
HTTPSRedirect	Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
HTTPSWWWRedirect	Redirect HTTP requests to WWW HTTPS
WWWRedirect	Redirect non WWW requests to WWW
NonWWWRedirect	Redirect WWW requests to non WWW
AddTrailingSlash	Add trailing slash to the request URI
RemoveTrailingSlash	Remove trailing slash from the request URI
MethodOverride	Override request method

Learn More

Third-party Middleware

Middleware	Description
echoperm	Keeping track of users, login states and permissions.
echopprof	Adapt net/http/pprof to labstack/echo.

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Credits

• Vishal Rana - Author
• Nitin Rana - Consultant
• Contributors

License

MIT