How do I pass arguments to my handler

Question

Welcome to Go.

It is acceptable to have global variables and specially database objects.

However, there are few ways to workaround that if you prefer not to, for example you can create a struct and define your showHandler on it.

type Users struct {
    db *gorm.DB
}

func (users *Users) showHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    //now you can use users.db
}
func (users *Users) addHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    //now you can use users.db
}

// setup
users := &Users{db: createDB()}
router.HandleFunc("/users/{id}", users.showHandler).Methods("GET")
router.HandleFunc("/users/new", users.addHandler)
//etc

Another approach is creating a wrapper function:

db := createDB()
router.HandleFunc("/users/{id}", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    showUserHandler(w, r, db)
}).Method("GET")

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