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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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URI format

RFC 3986, which was published in 2005 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt, defines the format that makes valid URIs:

URI = scheme "://" authority "/" path [ "?" query] ["#" fragment"] URI = http://myserver.com/mypath?query=1#document 

We are will use the path element in order to locate an endpoint that is running on our server. In a REST endpoint, this can contain parameters as well as a document location. The query string is equally important, as you will use this to pass parameters such as page number or ordering to control the data that is returned.

Some general rules for URI formatting:

  • A forward slash / is used to indicate a hierarchical relationship between resources
  • A trailing forward slash / should not be included in ...
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