Build REST API with Go Fiber and PlanetScale - Part 2

Models #

Create a User model and create a file called user.go inside models directory, and define a struct with gorm.

package models
 
import "gorm.io/gorm"
 
// User struct
type User struct {
    gorm.Model
    Name    string `json:"name"`
    Email   string `json:"email"`
    Website string `json:"website"`
}

Connect to Database #

Create a development database branch called add-users-table.

$ pscale branch create fiber-pscale add-users-table

Open a new terminal tab, we're going to connect to the database inside add-users-table branch and listen to 3309 PORT. See more Connect using client certificates.

$ pscale connect fiber-pscale add-users-table --port 3309

Create a file called database.go inside the models directory and add a function to connect to the database.

package models
 
import (
    "gorm.io/driver/mysql"
    "gorm.io/gorm"
)
 
var DB *gorm.DB
 
func ConnectDatabase() {
    // refer https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql#dsn-data-source-name for details
    dsn := "root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3309)/fiber-pscale?charset=utf8mb4&parseTime=True&loc=Local"
    database, err := gorm.Open(mysql.Open(dsn), &gorm.Config{})
    if err != nil {
        panic("failed to connect database")
    }
    // Migrate the users table
    database.AutoMigrate(&User{})
    DB = database
}

open your main.go, and call the ConnectDatabase function to migrate the tables and connect to the database.

 import (
 +    "github.com/maful/fiber-pscale/models" 
 )
  
 func main() {
     // ...
 +    models.ConnectDatabase() 
 }

then run the app go run cmd/main.go, Gorm will automatically migrate the table into add-users-table branch. How to know if the migration is success? You can check in the PlanetScale dashboard for the following branch, or use CLI to see the schema for add-users-table branch.

$ pscale branch schema fiber-pscale add-users-table
-- users --
CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `created_at` datetime(3) DEFAULT NULL,
  `updated_at` datetime(3) DEFAULT NULL,
  `deleted_at` datetime(3) DEFAULT NULL,
  `name` longtext,
  `email` longtext,
  `website` longtext,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `idx_users_deleted_at` (`deleted_at`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;

The schema won't apply to the main branch until you create a deploy request. Lastly, stop the connection from add-users-table branch or Ctrl+C.