An easy way to validate Go request

When building REST APIs or web applications in Go, one of the essential tasks is validating incoming request data. Having worked on various small to medium-sized projects in Golangβ€”most of which are microservices providing RESTful APIsβ€”I’ve employed several approaches to handle data validation. Among these, there’s one method I frequently rely on. For validating application/json or text/plain requests, I begin by defining a struct type to represent the specific request payload. Then, I implement a Validate method on that struct to encapsulate the validation logic. ...

October 18, 2017 Β· 2 min Β· Saddam H