Example to handle GET and POST request in Golang
ParseForm populates r.Form and r.PostForm.For all requests,
ParseForm parses the raw query from the URL and updates r.Form.User submitted form details storing in 2 variables name and address.
The HTML form have 2 input box of name and address.
Create two different files form.html and main.go
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> </head> <body> <div> <form method="POST" action="/"> <label>Name</label><input name="name" type="text" value="" /> <label>Address</label><input name="address" type="text" value="" /> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </div> </body> </html>
Example
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
)
func hello(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if r.URL.Path != "/" {
http.Error(w, "404 not found.", http.StatusNotFound)
return
}
switch r.Method {
case "GET":
http.ServeFile(w, r, "form.html")
case "POST":
// Call ParseForm() to parse the raw query and update r.PostForm and r.Form.
if err := r.ParseForm(); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "ParseForm() err: %v", err)
return
}
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Post from website! r.PostFrom = %v\n", r.PostForm)
name := r.FormValue("name")
address := r.FormValue("address")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Name = %s\n", name)
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Address = %s\n", address)
default:
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Sorry, only GET and POST methods are supported.")
}
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", hello)
fmt.Printf("Starting server for testing HTTP POST...\n")
if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
Run url
http://localhost:8080/ in your browser and see the below content
After submit the form
