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renderTemplate — write to a buffer first — http://elithrar.github.io/article/custom-handlers-avoiding-globals/
import (
"fmt"
"html/template"
"net/http"
"github.com/oxtoacart/bpool"
)
var bufpool *bpool.BufferPool
// renderTemplate is a wrapper around template.ExecuteTemplate.
// It writes into a bytes.Buffer before writing to the http.ResponseWriter to catch
// any errors resulting from populating the template.
func (c *appContext) renderTemplate(w http.ResponseWriter, name string, data map[string]interface{}) error {
// Ensure the template exists in the map.
tmpl, ok := c.templates[name]
if !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("The template %s does not exist.", name)
}
// Create a buffer to temporarily write to and check if any errors were encountered.
buf := c.bufpool.Get()
err := tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(&buf, "base", data)
if err != nil {
c.bufpool.Put(buf)
return err
}
// Set the header and write the buffer to the http.ResponseWriter
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
buf.WriteTo(w)
c.bufpool.Put(buf)
return nil
}
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tp commented Jul 18, 2014

Any reason not to use defer c.bufpool.Put(buf) right after declaring buf?

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