Tag: Function
Check If a URL is Valid
This is just a quick post showing how we can check if a URL is a valid one. URLs are often passed from third parties or user input, so they need to be checked before used. This function allows you to do just that, it will return true if the string is a valid URL. Feel free to copy and paste it and go from there. e.g. valid “https://gophercoding.com/" e.g. invalid “test string”
Writing Tests in Go (a Beginners Guide)
There a many benefits to testing your code in general, which we won’t go into detail on (but if you’re interested, take a look here) all we will say is the quote below. “Imperfect tests, run frequently, are much better than perfect tests that are never written at all”. - Fowler First Test We’ve created the most basic progam, to add two numbers together, below in main.go which we’re going to write a test for. Tests in Go are found in separate files to the code and are within *_test.go - where * is the filename. So our test would be main_test.go - but if your go file was address.go, you’d create a address_test.go and store them here.
Recover from a Panic
How to catch a panic error when it’s thrown? That’s what this post hopes to answer. Go has a built in recover() function which allows you to pick up and run some code when a panic is thrown. This can be useful for regaining execution of your program, or allowing the panic to happen, but to clean up state (like files) before your program closes. If you are curious what the structure of a panic is, see it’s docs here.
Example Netlify Function in Go
Netlify, the hosting and web platform, allows you to create "functions" along with their CDN. These functions are hosted on AWS’ Lambda and can be accessible via a URL. So you can create static sites, with extra ability and dynamism (like we use on this site). We wanted to share a post giving an example how to write one of these functions in Go. The aim of the code (below) is to return the version of golang.