I suggest you to use context only in a lifetime of a single task and pass the same context through functions.
Also you should understand where to use context and where just to pass arguments to functions.
Another suggestion is to use custom types for setting and getting values from context.
According to all above, you program should look like this:
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
)
type KeyMsg string
func main() {
ctx := context.WithValue(context.Background(), KeyMsg("msg"), "hello")
DoSomething(ctx)
}
// DoSomething accepts context value, retrieves message by KeyMsg and prints it.
func DoSomething(ctx context.Context) {
msg, ok := ctx.Value(KeyMsg("msg")).(string)
if !ok {
return
}
fmt.Println("got msg:", msg)
}
You can move function DoSomething into another package and just call it as packagename.DoSomething it will change nothing.