Hi Adam, thanks for that article. I really like the idea and will try it on one of my next projects.
Cheers, Chris On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 01:33:49PM -0700, 'Adam Berkan' via golang-nuts wrote: > Khan Academy Engineering Blog Post: > https://blog.khanacademy.org/statically-typed-context-in-go/ > > Khan Academy has been porting our backend from Python to Go. One thing we > hoped to get from it was fewer uses of implicit global resources and > request data. We looked at explicitly passing everything as parameters, or > hiding things in the context. > > In the end we decided to extend the context interface to provide access to > these global & request elements. This gives us strongly typed interfaces, > with less verbosity than writing every parameter out. > > func DoTheThing( > ctx interface { > context.Context > RequestContext > DatabaseContext > HttpClientContext > SecretsContext > LoggerContext > }, > thing string, > ) {...} > > I've written a whole blog post about the idea, our motivations, and our > experience with it. There's also some sample code available showing the > different approaches we considered: https://github.com/Khan/typed-context/ > > I realize this is not a wholly uncontroversial idea, but I'd appreciate any > feedback. > > Adam > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/2a1928ab-051b-492b-b4a1-154602d4067cn%40googlegroups.com. -- Nothing to see here. Move along. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/YlKVuiqAEOUaCsma%40chusuk.dune.
