Building RESTful Web services with Go

Building our first service – finding the Roman numeral

With the concepts we have built upto now, let us write our first basic REST service. This service takes the number range (1-10) from the client and returns its Roman string. Very primitive, but better than Hello World.

Design:

Our REST API should take an integer number from the client and serve back the Roman equivalent.

The block of the API design document may look like this:

HTTP Verb	PATH	Action	Resource
GET	/roman_number/2	show	roman_number

Implementation:

Now we are going to implement the preceding simple API step-by-step.

Code for this project is available at https://github.com/narenaryan/gorestful. 

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