How/Where to add a router to a Go app?

[RobertW (Robert Werner)]

I’m brand new to using Go. I’ve been assigned the task to modify the Gogs UI for an internal project in my company: https://github.com/gogits/gogs

I’d like to add a new page, via a new template, and then redirect to it under certain circumstances. In my particular case, the basic template I’m starting with is: /user/dashboard/dashboard.tmpl

Let’s say I wanted to add this one: /user/dashboard/dashboard2.tmpl

What do I need to do, in terms of routers, so that I can redirect to this page?

Note: If it’s impossible to have two destination pages within the same folder, then this would be fine too: /user/dashboard2/dashboard.tmpl

Either way works! But I’ve examined the Gogs codebase and read up everything I could about Go routers but cannot figure out how to make this work.

Robert

[geosoft1 (George Calianu)]

seems that you have problems with the templates not routers. from go you can load and render templates from the same folder. example:

package main

import (
	"html/template"
	"net/http"
)

var t *template.Template

func page1(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	t.ExecuteTemplate(w, "page1.html", nil)
}

func page2(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	t.ExecuteTemplate(w, "page2.html", nil)
}

func main() {
	t = template.New("templ")
	t.ParseGlob("templates/*.html")

	http.HandleFunc("/page1", page1)
	http.HandleFunc("/page2", page2)
	http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

this example use http.HandleFunc. if your application use a framework you need to link your handlers with its routers.