mortar-template

Mortar service template

This is a gRPC web service template using Mortar

For documentations and internals read here

First steps

Once you download/clone this template, do the following

1. (Optional) When it's not yet a git repository

   Init Git and create a first commit, before any other changes

   git init
   git add -A
   git commit -m "initial commit"
   

2. (Optional) Download and install protoc compiler plugins if needed

   make go-install-deps
   

   This will install [protoc-gen-grpc-gateway, protoc-gen-openapiv2, protoc-gen-go, protoc-gen-go-grpc]. For more information read this

3. Start you service

   make run
   

4. Verify

   from a different shell but in the same directory

   • GRPC

     grpcurl -plaintext \
             --import-path ./api \
             --import-path ./third_party/googleapis \
             -proto helloworld.proto \
             -d '{"name":"Mortar"}' \
             "localhost:5380" helloworld.Greeter/SayHello
     

     It's output should be

     {
         "message": "Hello Mortar"
     }
     

   • Public REST API

     curl -XPOST -d '{"name": "Mortar"}' 'localhost:5381/v1/sayhello'
     

     It's output should be

     {
         "message": "Hello Mortar"
     }
     

   • Private API

     curl localhost:5382/self/build
     

     And you should see something like this

     {
     "git_commit": "5ebdaee",
     "version": "v1.2.3",
     "build_tag": "42",
     "build_time": "2021-01-30T15:47:15Z",
     "init_time": "2021-01-30T17:47:17.166625+02:00",
     "up_time": "1m24.145705728s",
     "hostname": "Tals-Mac-mini.lan"
     }
     

   Server can be stopped with CTRL+C

Mortar configurations

Everything related to Mortar setup and other Constructors are found in app/mortar/*.

Continue reading here

Changing your API

This is a template project and as such it makes assumptions you will probably going to change.

By default this template comes as a github.com/go-masonry/mortar-template go module.

You will need to change:

1. GO Module

   Delete go.mod and go.sum and recreate with the package name of your choice.

2. Imports

   By default this template API is compiled with the above import. Change api/*.proto files and recompile by running

   make gen-api
   

3. Find & Replace/Update

   github.com/go-masonry/mortar-template -> <your-module-name>

   • app/controllers/controller.go
   • app/services/helloworld.go
   • app/validations/helloworld.go
   • app/mortar/helloworld.go
   • main.go

Troubleshooting

1. protoc-gen-go: program not found or is not executable means that $GOBIN is not in your $PATH

   Identify your GOPATH

   go env | grep GOPATH
   

   Set

   • For fish shell

     set -U fish_user_paths $GOPATH/bin $fish_user_paths
     

   • For zsh

     echo "export $GOPATH/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.zsh
     

2. Init Git and create a first commit.

   If not you will see something similar in your logs:

   git="fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"