Gin is a web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a martini-like API with performance that is up to 40 times faster thanks to httprouter. If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.
- Gin Web Framework
- Contents
- Installation
- Quick start
- Benchmarks
- Gin v1. stable
- Build with jsoniter/go-json
- Build without
MsgPack
rendering feature - API Examples
- Using GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and OPTIONS
- Parameters in path
- Querystring parameters
- Multipart/Urlencoded Form
- Another example: query + post form
- Map as querystring or postform parameters
- Upload files
- Grouping routes
- Blank Gin without middleware by default
- Using middleware
- How to write log file
- Custom Log Format
- Controlling Log output coloring
- Model binding and validation
- Custom Validators
- Only Bind Query String
- Bind Query String or Post Data
- Bind Uri
- Bind Header
- Bind HTML checkboxes
- Multipart/Urlencoded binding
- XML, JSON, YAML and ProtoBuf rendering
- Serving static files
- Serving data from file
- Serving data from reader
- HTML rendering
- Multitemplate
- Redirects
- Custom Middleware
- Using BasicAuth() middleware
- Goroutines inside a middleware
- Custom HTTP configuration
- Support Let's Encrypt
- Run multiple service using Gin
- Graceful shutdown or restart
- Build a single binary with templates
- Bind form-data request with custom struct
- Try to bind body into different structs
- http2 server push
- Define format for the log of routes
- Set and get a cookie
- Testing
- Users
To install Gin package, you need to install Go and set your Go workspace first.
- The first need Go installed (version 1.13+ is required), then you can use the below Go command to install Gin.
$ go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin
- Import it in your code:
import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
- (Optional) Import
net/http
. This is required for example if using constants such ashttp.StatusOK
.
import "net/http"
# assume the following codes in example.go file
$ cat example.go
package main
import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
func main() {
r := gin.Default()
r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
c.JSON(200, gin.H{
"message": "pong",
})
})
r.Run() // listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080 (for windows "localhost:8080")
}
# run example.go and visit 0.0.0.0:8080/ping (for windows "localhost:8080/ping") on browser
$ go run example.go
Gin uses a custom version of HttpRouter
Benchmark name | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
---|---|---|---|---|
BenchmarkGin_GithubAll | 43550 | 27364 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkAce_GithubAll | 40543 | 29670 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkAero_GithubAll | 57632 | 20648 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkBear_GithubAll | 9234 | 216179 ns/op | 86448 B/op | 943 allocs/op |
BenchmarkBeego_GithubAll | 7407 | 243496 ns/op | 71456 B/op | 609 allocs/op |
BenchmarkBone_GithubAll | 420 | 2922835 ns/op | 720160 B/op | 8620 allocs/op |
BenchmarkChi_GithubAll | 7620 | 238331 ns/op | 87696 B/op | 609 allocs/op |
BenchmarkDenco_GithubAll | 18355 | 64494 ns/op | 20224 B/op | 167 allocs/op |
BenchmarkEcho_GithubAll | 31251 | 38479 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGocraftWeb_GithubAll | 4117 | 300062 ns/op | 131656 B/op | 1686 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGoji_GithubAll | 3274 | 416158 ns/op | 56112 B/op | 334 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGojiv2_GithubAll | 1402 | 870518 ns/op | 352720 B/op | 4321 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGoJsonRest_GithubAll | 2976 | 401507 ns/op | 134371 B/op | 2737 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGoRestful_GithubAll | 410 | 2913158 ns/op | 910144 B/op | 2938 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGorillaMux_GithubAll | 346 | 3384987 ns/op | 251650 B/op | 1994 allocs/op |
BenchmarkGowwwRouter_GithubAll | 10000 | 143025 ns/op | 72144 B/op | 501 allocs/op |
BenchmarkHttpRouter_GithubAll | 55938 | 21360 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkHttpTreeMux_GithubAll | 10000 | 153944 ns/op | 65856 B/op | 671 allocs/op |
BenchmarkKocha_GithubAll | 10000 | 106315 ns/op | 23304 B/op | 843 allocs/op |
BenchmarkLARS_GithubAll | 47779 | 25084 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
BenchmarkMacaron_GithubAll | 3266 | 371907 ns/op | 149409 B/op | 1624 allocs/op |
BenchmarkMartini_GithubAll | 331 | 3444706 ns/op | 226551 B/op | 2325 allocs/op |
BenchmarkPat_GithubAll | 273 | 4381818 ns/op | 1483152 B/op | 26963 allocs/op |
BenchmarkPossum_GithubAll | 10000 | 164367 ns/op | 84448 B/op | 609 allocs/op |
BenchmarkR2router_GithubAll | 10000 | 160220 ns/op | 77328 B/op | 979 allocs/op |
BenchmarkRivet_GithubAll | 14625 | 82453 ns/op | 16272 B/op | 167 allocs/op |
BenchmarkTango_GithubAll | 6255 | 279611 ns/op | 63826 B/op | 1618 allocs/op |
BenchmarkTigerTonic_GithubAll | 2008 | 687874 ns/op | 193856 B/op | 4474 allocs/op |
BenchmarkTraffic_GithubAll | 355 | 3478508 ns/op | 820744 B/op | 14114 allocs/op |
BenchmarkVulcan_GithubAll | 6885 | 193333 ns/op | 19894 B/op | 609 allocs/op |
- (1): Total Repetitions achieved in constant time, higher means more confident result
- (2): Single Repetition Duration (ns/op), lower is better
- (3): Heap Memory (B/op), lower is better
- (4): Average Allocations per Repetition (allocs/op), lower is better
- Zero allocation router.
- Still the fastest http router and framework. From routing to writing.
- Complete suite of unit tests.
- Battle tested.
- API frozen, new releases will not break your code.
Gin uses encoding/json
as default json package but you can change it by build from other tags.
$ go build -tags=jsoniter .
$ go build -tags=go_json .
Gin enables MsgPack
rendering feature by default. But you can disable this feature by specifying nomsgpack
build tag.
$ go build -tags=nomsgpack .
This is useful to reduce the binary size of executable files. See the detail information.
You can find a number of ready-to-run examples at Gin examples repository.
func main() {
// Creates a gin router with default middleware:
// logger and recovery (crash-free) middleware
router := gin.Default()
router.GET("/someGet", getting)
router.POST("/somePost", posting)
router.PUT("/somePut", putting)
router.DELETE("/someDelete", deleting)
router.PATCH("/somePatch", patching)
router.HEAD("/someHead", head)
router.OPTIONS("/someOptions", options)
// By default it serves on :8080 unless a
// PORT environment variable was defined.
router.Run()
// router.Run(":3000") for a hard coded port
}
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
// This handler will match /user/john but will not match /user/ or /user
router.GET("/user/:name", func(c *gin.Context) {
name := c.Param("name")
c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello %s", name)
})
// However, this one will match /user/john/ and also /user/john/send
// If no other routers match /user/john, it will redirect to /user/john/
router.GET("/user/:name/*action", func(c *gin.Context) {
name := c.Param("name")
action := c.Param("action")
message := name + " is " + action
c.String(http.StatusOK, message)
})
// For each matched request Context will hold the route definition
router.POST("/user/:name/*action", func(c *gin.Context) {
c.FullPath() == "/user/:name/*action" // true
})
// This handler will add a new router for /user/groups.
// Exact routes are resolved before param routes, regardless of the order they were defined.
// Routes starting with /user/groups are never interpreted as /user/:name/... routes
router.GET("/user/groups", func(c *gin.Context) {
c.String(http.StatusOK, "The available groups are [...]", name)
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
// Query string parameters are parsed using the existing underlying request object.
// The request responds to a url matching: /welcome?firstname=Jane&lastname=Doe
router.GET("/welcome", func(c *gin.Context) {
firstname := c.DefaultQuery("firstname", "Guest")
lastname := c.Query("lastname") // shortcut for c.Request.URL.Query().Get("lastname")
c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello %s %s", firstname, lastname)
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
router.POST("/form_post", func(c *gin.Context) {
message := c.PostForm("message")
nick := c.DefaultPostForm("nick", "anonymous")
c.JSON(200, gin.H{
"status": "posted",
"message": message,
"nick": nick,
})
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
POST /post?id=1234&page=1 HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
name=manu&message=this_is_great
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
router.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) {
id := c.Query("id")
page := c.DefaultQuery("page", "0")
name := c.PostForm("name")
message := c.PostForm("message")
fmt.Printf("id: %s; page: %s; name: %s; message: %s", id, page, name, message)
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
id: 1234; page: 1; name: manu; message: this_is_great
POST /post?ids[a]=1234&ids[b]=hello HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
names[first]=thinkerou&names[second]=tianou
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
router.POST("/post", func(c *gin.Context) {
ids := c.QueryMap("ids")
names := c.PostFormMap("names")
fmt.Printf("ids: %v; names: %v", ids, names)
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
ids: map[b:hello a:1234]; names: map[second:tianou first:thinkerou]
References issue #774 and detail example code.
file.Filename
SHOULD NOT be trusted. See Content-Disposition
on MDN and #1693
The filename is always optional and must not be used blindly by the application: path information should be stripped, and conversion to the server file system rules should be done.
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
// Set a lower memory limit for multipart forms (default is 32 MiB)
router.MaxMultipartMemory = 8 << 20 // 8 MiB
router.POST("/upload", func(c *gin.Context) {
// single file
file, _ := c.FormFile("file")
log.Println(file.Filename)
// Upload the file to specific dst.
c.SaveUploadedFile(file, dst)
c.String(http.StatusOK, fmt.Sprintf("'%s' uploaded!", file.Filename))
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
How to curl
:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/upload \
-F "file=@/Users/appleboy/test.zip" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
See the detail example code.
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
// Set a lower memory limit for multipart forms (default is 32 MiB)
router.MaxMultipartMemory = 8 << 20 // 8 MiB
router.POST("/upload", func(c *gin.Context) {
// Multipart form
form, _ := c.MultipartForm()
files := form.File["upload[]"]
for _, file := range files {
log.Println(file.Filename)
// Upload the file to specific dst.
c.SaveUploadedFile(file, dst)
}
c.String(http.StatusOK, fmt.Sprintf("%d files uploaded!", len(files)))
})
router.Run(":8080")
}
How to curl
:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/upload \
-F "upload[]=@/Users/appleboy/test1.zip" \
-F "upload[]=@/Users/appleboy/test2.zip" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
func main() {
router := gin.Default()
// Simple group: v1
v1 := router.Group("/v1")
{
v1.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
v1.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
v1.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
}
// Simple group: v2
v2 := router.Group("/v2")
{
v2.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
v2.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
v2.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
}
router.Run(":8080")
}
Use
r := gin.New()
instead of
// Default With the Logger and Recovery middleware already attached
r := gin.Default()
func main() {
// Creates a router without any middleware by default
r := gin.New()
// Global middleware
// Logger middleware will write the logs to gin.DefaultWriter even if you set with GIN_MODE=release.
// By default gin.DefaultWriter = os.Stdout
r.Use(gin.Logger())
// Recovery middleware recovers from any panics and writes a 500 if there was one.
r.Use(gin.Recovery())
// Per route middleware, you can add as many as you desire.
r.GET("/benchmark", MyBenchLogger(), benchEndpoint)
// Authorization group
// authorized := r.Group("/", AuthRequired())
// exactly the same as:
authorized := r.Group("/")
// per group middleware! in this case we use the custom created
// AuthRequired() middleware just in the "authorized" group.
authorized.Use(AuthRequired())
{
authorized.POST("/login", loginEndpoint)
authorized.POST("/submit", submitEndpoint)
authorized.POST("/read", readEndpoint)
// nested group
testing := authorized.Group("testing")
testing.GET("/analytics", analyticsEndpoint)
}
// Listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080
r.Run(":8080")
}