If anyone's curious I've already devised a patch and submitted a PR to add hooks for styling directory pages served from http.FileServer(): (no warranty, of course)
https://github.com/Russtopia/go/commit/ff2a26eee79f8c9338c94c30d2fa1d2b9934daf6 -R. On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 18:46, Russtopia <rma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing an app which serves out its own endpoints via http.HandleFunc() > and so on, and of course it's easy to customize the content and layout of > these endpoints; but I also server out some filesystem trees using > http.FileServer(). > > This unfortunately seems to restrict one to the very plain-vanilla output > for directories hardcoded within the un-exposed dirList() function within > fs.go. > > https://golang.org/src/net/http/fs.go?s=20537:20577#L598 > > Is there a clever go way of extending net/http just to change dirList(), > without duplicating most of its code? > > If only dirList() were enhanced to check for an optionally-set user > override func(), calling that instead when specified, anyone could easily > style their fileservers' directory views. I'm not proposing bringing > templates into net/http -- it would be the user's responsibility to use > such things in their custom handlers, if desired. > > Any ideas of another way to do this short of cloning net/http and internal > dependencies? > > -Russ > > -- 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.
