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Build REST API with Go Fiber and PlanetScale - Part 4

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PlanetScale Go API Backend

Update a user

Again, add a new function called UpdateUser in the users handler.

func UpdateUser(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
// first, check if the user is exist
user := models.User{}
if err := models.DB.First(&user, "id = ?", c.Params("id")).Error; err != nil {
return c.Status(http.StatusNotFound).JSON(&fiber.Map{
"message": "Record not found!",
})
}
// second, parse the request body
request := &updateUserRequest{}
if err := c.BodyParser(request); err != nil {
return c.Status(http.StatusBadRequest).JSON(&fiber.Map{
"message": err.Error(),
})
}
// third, update the user
updateUser := models.User{
Name: request.Name,
Email: request.Email,
Website: request.Website,
}
models.DB.Model(&user).Updates(&updateUser)
return c.Status(http.StatusOK).JSON(&fiber.Map{
"user": user,
})
}

register UpdateUser in the main.go under the

app.Post("/users", handlers.CreateUser)
+app.Put("/users/:id", handlers.UpdateUser)

now, re-run the application. Update the user that we created before.

curl --location --request PUT 'http://localhost:3000/users/1' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"name": "Machine name"
}'

response

{
"user": {
"ID": 1,
"CreatedAt": "2021-09-08T08:07:25.042+07:00",
"UpdatedAt": "2021-09-08T08:15:52.249+07:00",
"DeletedAt": null,
"name": "Machine name",
"email": "joh@example.com",
"website": "google.com"
}
}

when the user doesn't exist

curl --location --request PUT 'http://localhost:3000/users/100' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"name": "Machine name"
}'

response

{
"message": "Record not found!"
}

Delete a user

Add the delete user function at the bottom of the users handler.

func DeleteUser(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
// first, check if the user is exist
user := models.User{}
if err := models.DB.First(&user, "id = ?", c.Params("id")).Error; err != nil {
return c.Status(http.StatusNotFound).JSON(&fiber.Map{
"message": "Record not found!",
})
}
// second, delete the user
models.DB.Delete(&user)
return c.Status(http.StatusOK).JSON(&fiber.Map{
"message": "Success",
})
}

register the function in main.go

app.Put("/users/:id", handlers.UpdateUser)
+app.Delete("/users/:id", handlers.DeleteUser)

so, create a new user again

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:3000/users' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"name": "Badu",
"email": "joh@example.com",
"website": "google.com"
}'

see the id from the response, we will delete that user

curl --location --request DELETE 'http://localhost:3000/users/2'

response

{
"message": "Success"
}

Summary

PlanetScale offers Developer plan pricing that you can use for the development lifecycle and it's completely FREE. You can create up to 3 databases and 3 branches for each database. Basically, this is going to be new knowledge for the developer who never use a serverless database and with a new workflow how to make a schema.

Fiber is a great web framework to build application in Go, they are fast, have rich features and the documentation is good.

This post, it's just a simple web API application to give a basic understanding of how to use Fiber and PlanetScale database. In the next one, we are going to build a more complex web API with the same tech stacks.

Download the full source code on this repository.

Thank you.

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