Sure, and that's why gorilla/mux uses context.Context internally. gorilla/sessions (and mux) both existed well before context.Context did, and sessions can't be changed without breaking the public API.
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 4:20:59 AM UTC-7, parais...@gmail.com wrote: > > Don't you think it would be better to use context to hold session values > rather than using global variables like github.com/gorilla/sessions does > ? > > Le lundi 11 juillet 2016 00:43:05 UTC+2, Matt Silverlock a écrit : >> >> Use it to pass connection/request-scoped values: that is, values that >> could only exist once you have a request. authentication tokens, user >> details, connection IDs: things that can't be known/generated before the >> connection has been received. >> >> e.g. gorilla/mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux) uses it to pass >> route-matching information back to the user (i.e. for /user/:name, the >> :name value). Don't use context to pass app-level dependencies, as it makes >> testing, reasoning and debugging hard. >> >> >> >> On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 4:03:18 PM UTC-7, Tyler Compton wrote: >>> >>> I'm really excited to see context.Context become a first class citizen >>> in Go 1.7. After using context, it feels like a natural way to write Go >>> network code and it fits naturally in the standard library. I'm trying to >>> figure out how I can improve existing code with the new features that come >>> with it. >>> >>> In Go 1.7, requests now can contain a context, and the context can be >>> changed. This seems really cool, but I don't know what exactly I can do >>> that I can't do before, other than what the documentation specifically >>> outlines: "For outgoing client requests, the context controls cancelation." >>> >>> Is there anything else we will be able to do that I should be looking >>> into? What are your plans? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
