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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/README.md b/vendor/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..785a108 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,323 @@ +# HttpRouter [](https://travis-ci.org/julienschmidt/httprouter) [](http://gocover.io/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) [](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) + +HttpRouter is a lightweight high performance HTTP request router +(also called *multiplexer* or just *mux* for short) for [Go](http://golang.org/). + +In contrast to the [default mux](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ServeMux) of Go's net/http package, this router supports +variables in the routing pattern and matches against the request method. +It also scales better. + +The router is optimized for high performance and a small memory footprint. +It scales well even with very long paths and a large number of routes. +A compressing dynamic trie (radix tree) structure is used for efficient matching. + +## Features +**Only explicit matches:** With other routers, like [http.ServeMux](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ServeMux), +a requested URL path could match multiple patterns. Therefore they have some +awkward pattern priority rules, like *longest match* or *first registered, +first matched*. By design of this router, a request can only match exactly one +or no route. As a result, there are also no unintended matches, which makes it +great for SEO and improves the user experience. + +**Stop caring about trailing slashes:** Choose the URL style you like, the +router automatically redirects the client if a trailing slash is missing or if +there is one extra. Of course it only does so, if the new path has a handler. +If you don't like it, you can [turn off this behavior](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.RedirectTrailingSlash). + +**Path auto-correction:** Besides detecting the missing or additional trailing +slash at no extra cost, the router can also fix wrong cases and remove +superfluous path elements (like `../` or `//`). +Is [CAPTAIN CAPS LOCK](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Captain+Caps+Lock) one of your users? +HttpRouter can help him by making a case-insensitive look-up and redirecting him +to the correct URL. + +**Parameters in your routing pattern:** Stop parsing the requested URL path, +just give the path segment a name and the router delivers the dynamic value to +you. Because of the design of the router, path parameters are very cheap. + +**Zero Garbage:** The matching and dispatching process generates zero bytes of +garbage. In fact, the only heap allocations that are made, is by building the +slice of the key-value pairs for path parameters. If the request path contains +no parameters, not a single heap allocation is necessary. + +**Best Performance:** [Benchmarks speak for themselves](https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark). +See below for technical details of the implementation. + +**No more server crashes:** You can set a [Panic handler](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.PanicHandler) to deal with panics +occurring during handling a HTTP request. The router then recovers and lets the +PanicHandler log what happened and deliver a nice error page. + +Of course you can also set **custom [NotFound](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.NotFound) and [MethodNotAllowed](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.MethodNotAllowed) handlers** and [**serve static files**](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.ServeFiles). + +## Usage +This is just a quick introduction, view the [GoDoc](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) for details. + +Let's start with a trivial example: +```go +package main + +import ( + "fmt" + "github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter" + "net/http" + "log" +) + +func Index(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, _ httprouter.Params) { + fmt.Fprint(w, "Welcome!\n") +} + +func Hello(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ps httprouter.Params) { + fmt.Fprintf(w, "hello, %s!\n", ps.ByName("name")) +} + +func main() { + router := httprouter.New() + router.GET("/", Index) + router.GET("/hello/:name", Hello) + + log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", router)) +} +``` + +### Named parameters +As you can see, `:name` is a *named parameter*. +The values are accessible via `httprouter.Params`, which is just a slice of `httprouter.Param`s. +You can get the value of a parameter either by its index in the slice, or by using the `ByName(name)` method: +`:name` can be retrived by `ByName("name")`. + +Named parameters only match a single path segment: +``` +Pattern: /user/:user + + /user/gordon match + /user/you match + /user/gordon/profile no match + /user/ no match +``` + +**Note:** Since this router has only explicit matches, you can not register static routes and parameters for the same path segment. For example you can not register the patterns `/user/new` and `/user/:user` for the same request method at the same time. The routing of different request methods is independent from each other. + +### Catch-All parameters +The second type are *catch-all* parameters and have the form `*name`. +Like the name suggests, they match everything. +Therefore they must always be at the **end** of the pattern: +``` +Pattern: /src/*filepath + + /src/ match + /src/somefile.go match + /src/subdir/somefile.go match +``` + +## How does it work? +The router relies on a tree structure which makes heavy use of *common prefixes*, +it is basically a *compact* [*prefix tree*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie) +(or just [*Radix tree*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree)). +Nodes with a common prefix also share a common parent. Here is a short example +what the routing tree for the `GET` request method could look like: + +``` +Priority Path Handle +9 \ *<1> +3 ├s nil +2 |├earch\ *<2> +1 |└upport\ *<3> +2 ├blog\ *<4> +1 | └:post nil +1 | └\ *<5> +2 ├about-us\ *<6> +1 | └team\ *<7> +1 └contact\ *<8> +``` +Every `*<num>` represents the memory address of a handler function (a pointer). +If you follow a path trough the tree from the root to the leaf, you get the +complete route path, e.g `\blog\:post\`, where `:post` is just a placeholder +([*parameter*](#named-parameters)) for an actual post name. Unlike hash-maps, a +tree structure also allows us to use dynamic parts like the `:post` parameter, +since we actually match against the routing patterns instead of just comparing +hashes. [As benchmarks show](https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark), +this works very well and efficient. + +Since URL paths have a hierarchical structure and make use only of a limited set +of characters (byte values), it is very likely that there are a lot of common +prefixes. This allows us to easily reduce the routing into ever smaller problems. +Moreover the router manages a separate tree for every request method. +For one thing it is more space efficient than holding a method->handle map in +every single node, for another thing is also allows us to greatly reduce the +routing problem before even starting the look-up in the prefix-tree. + +For even better scalability, the child nodes on each tree level are ordered by +priority, where the priority is just the number of handles registered in sub +nodes (children, grandchildren, and so on..). +This helps in two ways: + +1. Nodes which are part of the most routing paths are evaluated first. This +helps to make as much routes as possible to be reachable as fast as possible. +2. It is some sort of cost compensation. The longest reachable path (highest +cost) can always be evaluated first. The following scheme visualizes the tree +structure. Nodes are evaluated from top to bottom and from left to right. + +``` +├------------ +├--------- +├----- +├---- +├-- +├-- +└- +``` + + +## Why doesn't this work with http.Handler? +**It does!** The router itself implements the http.Handler interface. +Moreover the router provides convenient [adapters for http.Handler](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.Handler)s and [http.HandlerFunc](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.HandlerFunc)s +which allows them to be used as a [httprouter.Handle](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.Handle) when registering a route. +The only disadvantage is, that no parameter values can be retrieved when a +http.Handler or http.HandlerFunc is used, since there is no efficient way to +pass the values with the existing function parameters. +Therefore [httprouter.Handle](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.Handle) has a third function parameter. + +Just try it out for yourself, the usage of HttpRouter is very straightforward. The package is compact and minimalistic, but also probably one of the easiest routers to set up. + + +## Where can I find Middleware *X*? +This package just provides a very efficient request router with a few extra +features. The router is just a [http.Handler](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Handler), +you can chain any http.Handler compatible middleware before the router, +for example the [Gorilla handlers](http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/handlers). +Or you could [just write your own](http://justinas.org/writing-http-middleware-in-go/), +it's very easy! + +Alternatively, you could try [a web framework based on HttpRouter](#web-frameworks-based-on-httprouter). + +### Multi-domain / Sub-domains +Here is a quick example: Does your server serve multiple domains / hosts? +You want to use sub-domains? +Define a router per host! +```go +// We need an object that implements the http.Handler interface. +// Therefore we need a type for which we implement the ServeHTTP method. +// We just use a map here, in which we map host names (with port) to http.Handlers +type HostSwitch map[string]http.Handler + +// Implement the ServerHTTP method on our new type +func (hs HostSwitch) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + // Check if a http.Handler is registered for the given host. + // If yes, use it to handle the request. + if handler := hs[r.Host]; handler != nil { + handler.ServeHTTP(w, r) + } else { + // Handle host names for wich no handler is registered + http.Error(w, "Forbidden", 403) // Or Redirect? + } +} + +func main() { + // Initialize a router as usual + router := httprouter.New() + router.GET("/", Index) + router.GET("/hello/:name", Hello) + + // Make a new HostSwitch and insert the router (our http handler) + // for example.com and port 12345 + hs := make(HostSwitch) + hs["example.com:12345"] = router + + // Use the HostSwitch to listen and serve on port 12345 + log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":12345", hs)) +} +``` + +### Basic Authentication +Another quick example: Basic Authentification (RFC 2617) for handles: + +```go +package main + +import ( + "bytes" + "encoding/base64" + "fmt" + "github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter" + "net/http" + "log" + "strings" +) + +func BasicAuth(h httprouter.Handle, user, pass []byte) httprouter.Handle { + return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ps httprouter.Params) { + const basicAuthPrefix string = "Basic " + + // Get the Basic Authentication credentials + auth := r.Header.Get("Authorization") + if strings.HasPrefix(auth, basicAuthPrefix) { + // Check credentials + payload, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(auth[len(basicAuthPrefix):]) + if err == nil { + pair := bytes.SplitN(payload, []byte(":"), 2) + if len(pair) == 2 && + bytes.Equal(pair[0], user) && + bytes.Equal(pair[1], pass) { + + // Delegate request to the given handle + h(w, r, ps) + return + } + } + } + + // Request Basic Authentication otherwise + w.Header().Set("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=Restricted") + http.Error(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusUnauthorized), http.StatusUnauthorized) + } +} + +func Index(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, _ httprouter.Params) { + fmt.Fprint(w, "Not protected!\n") +} + +func Protected(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, _ httprouter.Params) { + fmt.Fprint(w, "Protected!\n") +} + +func main() { + user := []byte("gordon") + pass := []byte("secret!") + + router := httprouter.New() + router.GET("/", Index) + router.GET("/protected/", BasicAuth(Protected, user, pass)) + + log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", router)) +} +``` + +## Chaining with the NotFound handler + +**NOTE: It might be required to set [Router.HandleMethodNotAllowed](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.HandleMethodNotAllowed) to `false` to avoid problems.** + +You can use another [http.Handler](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Handler), for example another router, to handle requests which could not be matched by this router by using the [Router.NotFound](http://godoc.org/github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#Router.NotFound) handler. This allows chaining. + +### Static files +The `NotFound` handler can for example be used to serve static files from the root path `/` (like an index.html file along with other assets): +```go +// Serve static files from the ./public directory +router.NotFound = http.FileServer(http.Dir("public")).ServeHTTP +``` + +But this approach sidesteps the strict core rules of this router to avoid routing problems. A cleaner approach is to use a distinct sub-path for serving files, like `/static/*filepath` or `/files/*filepath`. + +## Web Frameworks based on HttpRouter +If the HttpRouter is a bit too minimalistic for you, you might try one of the following more high-level 3rd-party web frameworks building upon the HttpRouter package: +* [Ace](https://github.com/plimble/ace): Blazing fast Go Web Framework +* [api2go](https://github.com/univedo/api2go): A JSON API Implementation for Go +* [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin): Features a martini-like API with much better performance +* [Goat](https://github.com/bahlo/goat): A minimalistic REST API server in Go +* [Hikaru](https://github.com/najeira/hikaru): Supports standalone and Google AppEngine +* [Hitch](https://github.com/nbio/hitch): Hitch ties httprouter, [httpcontext](https://github.com/nbio/httpcontext), and middleware up in a bow +* [kami](https://github.com/guregu/kami): A tiny web framework using x/net/context +* [Medeina](https://github.com/imdario/medeina): Inspired by Ruby's Roda and Cuba +* [Neko](https://github.com/rocwong/neko): A lightweight web application framework for Golang +* [Roxanna](https://github.com/iamthemuffinman/Roxanna): An amalgamation of httprouter, better logging, and hot reload +* [siesta](https://github.com/VividCortex/siesta): Composable HTTP handlers with contexts |
