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Created February 20, 2013 03:05
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Example of testing Go HTTP servers using httptest.Server.
package main
import (
"log"
"myserver"
"net/http"
)
const addr = "localhost:12345"
func main() {
mux := http.NewServeMux()
handler := &myserver.MyHandler{}
mux.Handle("/favicon.ico", http.NotFoundHandler())
mux.Handle("/", handler)
log.Printf("Now listening on %s...\n", addr)
server := http.Server{Handler: mux, Addr: addr}
log.Fatal(server.ListenAndServe())
}
package myserver
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"sync"
)
type MyHandler struct {
sync.Mutex
count int
}
func (h *MyHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
var count int
h.Lock()
h.count++
count = h.count
h.Unlock()
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Visitor count: %d.", count)
}
package myserver
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"testing"
)
func TestMyHandler(t *testing.T) {
handler := &MyHandler{}
server := httptest.NewServer(handler)
defer server.Close()
for _, i := range []int{1, 2} {
resp, err := http.Get(server.URL)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
t.Fatalf("Received non-200 response: %d\n", resp.StatusCode)
}
expected := fmt.Sprintf("Visitor count: %d.", i)
actual, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if expected != string(actual) {
t.Errorf("Expected the message '%s'\n", expected)
}
}
}
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100% code coverage is not a useful thing to aspire to. You'll end up writing strange code for testing, rather than for solving the problem you're trying to solve.

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