genclient

Documentation

Overview

Package genclient provides a generator for the client tool and package of a goa application. The generator creates a main.go file and a subpackage containing data structures specific to the service.

The generated code includes a client package with:

• One client method per resource action
• Helper functions to build the corresponding request paths
• Structs for the action payloads and dependent types
• Structs for the action media types and corresponding decoder functions

The generated code also includes a CLI tool with commands for each action and sub-commands for each resource.

Index

• func Generate() (files []string, err error)
• type Generator
  • func (g *Generator) Cleanup()
  • func (g *Generator) Generate(api *design.APIDefinition) (_ []string, err error)

Functions

func Generate

func Generate() (files []string, err error)

Generate is the generator entry point called by the meta generator.

Types

type Generator

type Generator struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Generator is the application code generator.

func (*Generator) Cleanup

func (g *Generator) Cleanup()

Cleanup removes all the files generated by this generator during the last invokation of Generate.

func (*Generator) Generate

func (g *Generator) Generate(api *design.APIDefinition) (_ []string, err error)

Generate generats the client package and CLI.