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Go Web Programming
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Go Web Programming

by Sau Sheong Chang
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
9h 9m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Go web services

This chapter covers

  • Using RESTful web services
  • Creating and parsing XML with Go
  • Creating and parsing JSON with Go
  • Writing Go web services

Web services, as you’ll recall from our brief discussion in chapter 1, provide a service to other software programs. This chapter expands on this and shows how you can use Go to write or consume web services. You’ll learn how to create and parse XML and JSON first, because these are the most frequently used data formats with web services. We’ll also discuss SOAP and RESTful services before going through the steps for creating a simple web service in JSON.

7.1. Introducing web services

One of the more popular uses of Go is in writing web services that provide services and ...

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