httpm

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Overview

Package httpm has shorter names for HTTP method constants.

Some background: originally Go didn't have http.MethodGet, http.MethodPost and life was good and people just wrote readable "GET" and "POST". But then in a moment of weakness Brad and others maintaining net/http caved and let the http.MethodFoo constants be added and code's been less readable since. Now the substance of the method name is hidden away at the end after "http.Method" and they all blend together and it's hard to read code using them.

This package is a compromise. It provides constants, but shorter and closer to how it used to look. It does violate Go style (https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#mixed-caps) that says constants shouldn't be SCREAM_CASE. But this isn't INT_MAX; it's GET and POST, which are already defined as all caps.

It would be tempting to make these constants be typed but then they wouldn't be assignable to things in net/http that just want string. Oh well.

Index

• Constants

Constants

const (
	GET       = "GET"
	HEAD      = "HEAD"
	POST      = "POST"
	PUT       = "PUT"
	PATCH     = "PATCH"
	DELETE    = "DELETE"
	CONNECT   = "CONNECT"
	OPTIONS   = "OPTIONS"
	TRACE     = "TRACE"
	SPACEJUMP = "SPACEJUMP" // https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods/SpaceJump.html
	BREW      = "BREW"      // https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324#section-2.1.1
)