I'm learning Go, and am writing a simple web server that uses a channel to limit the number of concurrent requests. The server prints log entries at the console that show it's receiving the requests and processing them, however the client browser doesn't show any output. I've tried adding a flush of the response writer, that didn't help.
As a noob, what am I missing? Thanks for any tips/pointers.
Here's the code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"html"
"net/http"
"time"
)
// define a type to be used with our request channel
type clientRequest struct {
r *http.Request
w http.ResponseWriter
}
const (
MaxRequests int = 10
)
// the request channel, to limit the number of simultaneous requests being processed
var reqChannel chan *clientRequest
func init() {
reqChannel = make(chan *clientRequest, MaxRequests)
}
func main() {
// create the server's handler
var ServeMux = http.NewServeMux()
ServeMux.HandleFunc("/", serveHandler)
// start pool of request handlers, all reading from the same channel
for i := 0; i < MaxRequests; i++ {
go processRequest(i)
}
// create the server object
s := &http.Server{
Addr: ":8080",
Handler: ServeMux, // handler to invoke, http.DefaultServeMux if nil
ReadTimeout: 10 * time.Second, // maximum duration before timing out read of the request
WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second, // maximum duration before timing out write of the response
MaxHeaderBytes: 1 << 20, // maximum size of request headers, 1048576 bytes
}
// start the server
err := s.ListenAndServe()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Server failed to start: ", err)
}
}
func serveHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
var newRequest = new(clientRequest)
newRequest.r = r
newRequest.w = w
reqChannel <- newRequest // send the new request to the request channel
fmt.Printf("Sent request to reqChannel for URL: %q
", html.EscapeString(r.URL.Path))
}
func processRequest(instanceNbr int) {
fmt.Printf("processRequest started for instance #%d
", instanceNbr)
for theRequest := range reqChannel { // receive requests from the channel until it is closed
fmt.Printf("Got request from reqChannel for URL: %q
", html.EscapeString(theRequest.r.URL.Path))
// xxx this isn't working:
fmt.Fprintf(theRequest.w, "processRequest instance #%d: URL is %q", instanceNbr, html.EscapeString(theRequest.r.URL.Path))
if f, ok := theRequest.w.(http.Flusher); ok {
f.Flush()
}
}
}