I'm trying to understand variable scopes in golang with the following code. In this example, calling in http a page will echo the uri query combined with a stored value in Boltdb.
The problem is that the database driver doesn't seem to run correctly in the http handler context: it doesn't print anything to stdout nor to the http request.
I was expecting it to print :
He's loving <'uri query content'> but prefers pizza (data from bolt.db driver)
How to fix this code? package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"log"
"github.com/boltdb/bolt"
)
var db bolt.DB
func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
dberr := db.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
log.Println("here")
b := tx.Bucket([]byte("MyBucket"))
loving := b.Get([]byte("loving"))
log.Printf("He's loving %s but prefers %s",r.URL.Path[1:], string(loving))
fmt.Fprintf(w,"He's loving %s but prefers %s",r.URL.Path[1:], string(loving) )
return nil
})
if dberr != nil {
fmt.Errorf("db update: %s", dberr)
}
log.Printf("Finished handling")
}
func main() {
db, err := bolt.Open("my.db", 0600, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}else{
log.Println("database opened")
}
dberr := db.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
b, err := tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists([]byte("MyBucket"))
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("create bucket: %s", err)
}
err2 := b.Put([]byte("loving"), []byte("pizza"))
if err2 != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("put loving: %s", err2)
}
loving := b.Get([]byte("loving"))
log.Printf("He's loving %s", string(loving))
return nil
})
if dberr != nil {
fmt.Errorf("db update: %s", err)
}
defer db.Close()
http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}