astrolabe

Astrolabe

Martini middleware/handler for easily finding all routes of your app.

Why?

I started playing with Go a couple of days ago, so I figured this would be a good chance to create a package and share it with the world, I love how easy Martini makes web development in Go, so creating a middleware was naturally the first thought I had.

Fortunately for me, the functionality provided by Astrolabe was asked for a while ago, so I didn't actually have to do much of work. It was a great exercise though.

What's in a name?

I'm not really great at names, but my inspiration was the Rails' engine Sextant.

How to use

Astrolabe have only been tested with martini.Classic(), if you use martini.New() and face any issues, please report the problem.

The route /martini/routes is only accessible in development. You can use the middleware in the following way:

// server.go
package main

import (
	"github.com/ahazem/astrolabe"
	"github.com/go-martini/martini"
)

func main() {
  m := martini.Classic()
  
  // Add some routes.
  m.Get("/posts", func() string {
    return "Hello World!"
  })
  
  // Use astrolabe (router is used to expose /martini/routes endpoint)
  m.Use(astrolabe.ExposeEndpoint(m.Router))

  m.Run()
}

Visit http://localhost:3000/martini/routes to see a list of all the routes in your app.

License

See LICENSE.

Disclaimer

Copyrights of some parts of the HTML code used belong to Jeremy Saenz, and is licensed under the MIT license.