Building RESTful Web services with Go

Custom paths

We can define the preceding route in two steps:

• First, define the path on the router:

      r := mux.NewRouter()

• Next, define the handler on the router:

      r.Path("/articles/{category}/{id:[0-  9]+}").HandlerFunc(ArticleHandler) //chaining is possible

Be aware that the method chained here is HandlerFunc and not HandleFunc, as shown in the preceding code. We can create a top-level path and add subpaths to different handlers easily in Mux using Subrouter:

r := mux.NewRouter()s := r.PathPrefix("/articles").Subrouter()s.HandleFunc("{id}/settings", settingsHandler)s.HandleFunc("{id}/details", detailsHandler)

So all the URLs of the form http://localhost:8000/articles/123/settings redirect to settingsHandler and URLs of the form http://localhost:8000/articles/123/details ...