How would you use this with google app engine?

[beckler]

I'm wanting to use this with gae, but I can't seem to figure it out.

[CaptainCodeman]

Most go frameworks I've tried work fine on app engine, the normal approach is to use init instead of main and map the mux / router to the default http.handler instead of calling ListenAndServe (the app engine adds it's own main wrapper I believe):

So, instead of:

func main() {
    h := hitch.New()
    h.Get("/", http.HandlerFunc(Home))
    http.ListenAndServe(":8000", h.handler())
}

You'd have something like:

func init() {
    h := hitch.New()
    h.Get("/", http.HandlerFunc(Home))
    http.Handle("/", h.handler())
}

It's fairly easy to have some compiler tags so the same app can be run on app engine or on a regular server (Obviously, you need to put any services behind an interface so you can swap out any app engine specific components)

[cee-dub]

We haven't tried using hitch on GAE, so it is untested there. We'd be pleased to review a PR with any necessary changes.

Separately, we were tossing around the idea of switching to https://github.com/labstack/echo, but switching HTTP routers is not a high priority for us right now.

[beckler]

Okay. I'm stilling learning some of the http interfacing, but from what I could tell, I was making the foolish mistake of calling http.Handle("/", h), instead of http.Handle("/", h.handler()).

Thanks!

[cee-dub]

Glad you're unblocked! If there was something in the docs that confused you, please let us know. We would like to fix it.