13 - Gin Handler Timeout Middleware

• timeout

  1 172 7.3 Go

  Timeout middleware for Gin (by gin-contrib)

  

The second middleware I found was gin-contrib/timeout. Note that this repository of middlewares is not the official one by gin-gonic, gin-gonic/contrib, even though it has a similar name. This middleware had issues trying to rewrite headers to a response writer, which we'll discuss when we write our middleware.

• Gin

  152 75,469 8.5 Go

  Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

  

In middleware HandlerFunc, we can modify this gin.Context according to our needs. In our handler timeout middleware, we will wrap our the request context with a timeout and handle concurrency issues. Another simple example is a logger, as shown in the Gin docs. Yet another case you might see is extracting a user from a session or token, and setting this user as a key on gin.Context. In fact, we'll do just that in a handful of tutorials!

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• gin-timeout

  1 105 3.2 Go

  Timeout Middleware for Gin framework

Since getting a timeout handler middleware to work as I would like would require modifying any of the available handlers, I decided it would just be easier to create our own, even if I'm borrowing heavily from http.TimeoutHandler and vearne/gin-timeout.

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