[go-nuts] net/http/httptest - injecting handlers

Hi,

I'm trying to inject a DB connection into my HTTP handlers using net/http/httptest.

This is what I am currently doing, which seems to work:

// Create a handler instance with a reference to the DB
handler := New(db)

// Wrap the function I want to test
closure := http.HandlerFunc(func (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request {handler.DoSomething(w,r)} )

// After creating the test server, I can execute my tests
server := httptest.NewServer(closure)


I'd like to somehow wrap the creation of the closure in order to reduce code verbosity. Is there some way to declare a function that takes my handler.DoSomething(w,r) as a pointer and wraps it with the http.Handler interface?

Or have I maybe misunderstood how to effectively use anonymous interface implementations?

Or is there potentially a better way to inject shared state into HTTP handlers?

Cheers,

Ben


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