Building RESTful Web services with Go

Using Gorilla's Handlers middleware for Logging 

The Gorilla Handlers package provides various kinds of middleware for common tasks. The most important ones in the list are:

• LoggingHandler: For logging in Apache Common Log Format
• CompressionHandler: For zipping the responses
• RecoveryHandler: For recovering from unexpected panics

Here, we use the LoggingHandler to perform API-wide logging. First, install this library using go get:

go get "github.com/gorilla/handlers"

This logging server enables us to create a server like a log with time and option. For example, when you see apache.log, you find something like this:

192.168.2.20 - - [28/Jul/2006:10:27:10 -0300] "GET /cgi-bin/try/ HTTP/1.0" 200 3395127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jul/2006:10:22:04 -0300] ...