I'm very new to golang and try to write a simple event-sourcing user-management webapi using mongodb as backing database. Now i have User, which looks something like this:
type User struct {
Id bson.ObjectId `json:"id" bson:"_id"`
UserName string `json:"username" bson:"username"`
Email string `json:"email" bson:"email"`
PwdHash string `json:"pwd_hash" bson:"pwd_hash"`
FullName string `json:"fullname" bson:"fullname"`
}
and three events, happening to user, when somebody uses api:
type UserCreatedEvent struct {
UserId bson.ObjectId `json:"id" bson:"_id"`
//time when event was issued
CreatedEpoch time.Time `json:"created_epoch" bson:"created_epoch"`
//id of user that made a change
IssuedByUserId bson.ObjectId `json:"issuedby_userid" bson:"issuedby_userid"`
}
type UserDeletedEvent struct {
UserId bson.ObjectId `json:"id" bson:"_id"`
CreatedEpoch time.Time `json:"created_epoch" bson:"created_epoch"`
//id of user that made a change
IssuedByUserId bson.ObjectId `json:"issuedby_userid" bson:"issuedby_userid"`
}
type UserUpdatedEvent struct {
UserId bson.ObjectId `json:"id" bson:"_id"`
CreatedEpoch time.Time `json:"created_epoch" bson:"created_epoch"`
//id of user that made a change
IssuedByUserId bson.ObjectId `json:"issuedby_userid" bson:"issuedby_userid"`
ChangedFieldName string `json:"changed_field_name" bson:"changed_field_name"`
NewChangedFieldValue string `json:"new_changed_field_value" bson:"new_changed_field_value"`
}
Now i'm stuck on saving and retrieving events from db. The problem is i want to store them in a single collection, so that i have a full plain history of user modifications. But i can't find how to correctly store event type name as a mongo document field and then use it in searches. What is the idiomatic go-way to do this?
I'll be gratefull for any help.